[macvoiceover] Re: Captcha

  • From: Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 16:56:35 -0600

My assumption on the unintelligible audio captia is so that speech recognition 
technology like Syri can't process it. Has anyone tried letting syri have a go 
at recognizing one?

Ian

On 2012-08-04, at 10:52 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Cheryl,
> 
>> No, I have no solutions.  It's so frustrating.  I can't for the life of me 
>> understand why the audio captcha, when there is one, has to be made 
>> unintelligible.  Can anyone explain the reason for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Russell
> Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!
> 
> On 2012-08-04, at 10:19 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Now that solona is gone, do we have any solutions for captcha? I keep 
>> running into captchas with no audio. Even more perplexing, I find most of 
>> these new captchas with voices in the background and one voice saying words 
>> but also contributing to the background mess almost entirely unintelligible; 
>> you have to type bunches of words and I'm doing good to be able even to 
>> figure out one of them.  If it's that way for sighted people too, I don't 
>> know how we get them deciphered. I'm just coming to the point where I'm 
>> translating "captcha" to mean "go away and leave us alone". Has anybody 
>> found any solutions out there?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheryl
>> 
>> May the words of my mouth
>> and the meditation of my heart
>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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