Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns From: Bradford.Wetmore@ebay.sun.com (Brad R. Wetmore) Subject: Speech Recoginition is a Good Thing Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:20:00 PDT URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q2/speechrecog.html

At a recent Sacramento PC User's Group meeting, a vendor was demo'ing his company's latest speech recognition software. He was just about ready to start the demo, and asked everyone in the room to quiet down. Just as he was ready to start, someone from the back of the room yelled, "FORMAT C : RETURN"

(This was mentioned in the Sacra Blue magazine, the monthly newsletter of the SPCUG.)

The unintended repercussions of technological advances:

At a recent Sacramento PC User's Group meeting, a company was demonstrating its latest speech-recognition software. A representative from the company was just about ready to start the demonstration and asked everyone in the room to quiet down. Just then, someone in the back of the room yelled, "Format C: Return." Someone else chimed in: "Yes, Return." Unfortunately, the software worked.