It's frustrating when speech recognition can get your own name right, and I have a similar problem. My name is Valerie but it is often recognized as Gallery. Do you think it knows that I am overweight? Grin. However, Dense and Psychos is even more funny. You got a love technology! Mallory, sorry, that should have been gallery, that should have been Valerie… see what I mean! On May 11, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Denise Thompson wrote: > Speech recognition is great, but can be interesting at times. When I've tried > to use it sometimes. It signs my name as Dense instead of Denise. Now I don't > know if it knows something I don't or what. A friend of mine who relies on it > all the time because she can't use her hands to type is often referred to as > Psychos. Her last name is Szychowski pronounced shihowski. So we often > exchange email messages from Dense and Psychos. > > > At 08:51 PM 5/9/2010, you wrote: >> Thought y'all would enjoy this one… tonight I was dictating an e-mail and >> talking about books and things to look for I tried to say “her synopses", >> but MacSpeech Dictate interpreted it as "Hearst and Nazis" >> >> Pretty funny! >> Valerie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of >> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >