I didn’t type this sentence
I didn’t write a word
I decided to try something
Utterly absurd
My fingers aren’t moving
My keyboard sits alone
For all you know I could be
Perched upon the throne
I’m nowhere near a computer
Just chilling on my couch
These words just keep appearing
How’s that for a slouch?
How can this be happening?
How did this come to be?
These words are just appearing
Every time I speak
Technology is amazing
With smartphone in hand
I can turn voice to words
And spread them ‘cross the land
This poem was “written” completely using google voice recognition. I got the idea to try this the other day and it is much more difficult to write this way than to actually type it out using a keyboard. Quite frankly writing this way is a real pain in the ass; I don’t recommend it at all. Still, it was a neat thing to try.
Mental Defecation 
I took a buzzfeed quiz once about what accent I have. Came up I have a Midwestern accent which is preferable to reporters and what not. But at the same time I never use voice recognition on my phone unless it’s a quick question to Siri. She’s the only one who gets me. Speech to text messes me up.
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My phone has Samsung Voice, which is supposed to be Samsung’s version of Siri, but I’ve yet to try it. Somehow the idea of me having a conversation directly with my phone strikes me as absurd. Of course, now that I’ve dictated an entire poem to my phone I should probably reconsider…
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Cracking up! You did do a great job though but I need the keyboard… although I do read my posts out loud before clicking “publish.” Mostly, anyway.
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The tough part was when I wanted to hit enter, so I’d say “enter” and it would put some bullshit on the screen that I didn’t say. Then, if I enunciated more forcefully it got even worse, so then I had to calm down. Sigh…
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With my accent, my phone’s voice recognition only recognizes about every other word I say in English. So it would be interesting to try to dictate a poem and see what Google turns it into – and then run it through a few rounds of Google translate, so that it’s completely unrecognizable.
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There’s your next top 10 list. Top 10 things Google thinks you said.
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Nice! I finally have a new phone and will need to try out that feature…or not.
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Never used voice recognition. Heck, I’ve never even used Siri
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Siri wants to be used.
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Try having a Texas drawl…yeah, no voice recognition in the world works well with any sort of drawl. The deeper into the southern drawl you go the worse it gets. Funny thing is, my drawl is mild as I worked hard to lose it over the years.
I think you did great!
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I developed a bit of an accent when I lived in Georgia. Luckily that was more than 20 years ago and I’ve lost it. Mostly…
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That was awesome!
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Yay! Glad you liked it!
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I agree, the problem is that it doesn’t do punctuation so you have to go back and edit it manually.
One day, maybe….
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It actually does do punctuation. You have to say the words, though. So at the end of a sentence you have to actually say “period.” When I want to end a paragraph I have to say enter…twice. That got a bit confusing for the app, though…
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But what if you say “there was a knock at the door. ‘Enter’ he answered”. How does it know if that’s part of the text or a command?
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There was a knock at the door enter.
I don’t know somehow it just knows because I did all this with voice recognition and this is the result.
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Fair enough! It’s reassuring to know that all this technology actually is useful!
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Right???
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Left. 😉
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