Impossible to tell if the blame lies with the teacher or with whoever did the typesetting, which today means retyping into a computer...
Wanton use of automatic Spell Checkers can also come up with all sorts of anomalies like this, sometimes due to the data-entry person starting off with an honest typo, sometimes due to that person just simply having to move too fast to get the work done, or the type-setter not even understanding that the digital piano has Sound Effects built into it.
This one is not as bad as a classified I came across back in the late 90's when I was still involved with guitar trading, that one advertised a Gibson Stratocaster.
Whenever I saw an ad like that, I would at least call and find out the real skinny, as sometimes we can find a real deal from such, other times we can help out someone who is in need of the money but does not know what that guitar their son left is really worth.
In this case, though, the "Gibson Stratocaster" turned out to be a rather bad example of an early made-in-asia-somewhere Sortacaster with a way too huge body...
I would be a customer for that chair. With office chairs, I always take the arms off if I can because it lets me play guitar/bass much more easier in front of my DAW.
I don't buy the kind where the arm is actually the support mechanism for the back of the chair as a result.
The OP reminds me of things I see on a daily basis as a medical language specialist. I started as a transcriptionist, i.e., started with a blank page and typed what I heard, but now mostly edit draft text that has been washed through speech recognition (SR) software.
I'm working right now and just had a minor example: Dictated: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splint her." SR: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splinter."
Here's another: D: "The patient heard a loud cracking noise." SR: The patient her allowed cracking noise."
Two words: Job. Security.
I contributed many examples of this stuff to Don Gaynor's humor thread, half unintentional humor by dictators and half SR oopsies. It's on pg. 40 for anyone who wants to have a shufti.
R.
Last edited by Ryszard; 09/30/1308:04 PM. Reason: The hits just keep on coming!
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
The OP reminds me of things I see on a daily basis as a medical language specialist. I started as a transcriptionist, i.e., started with a blank page and typed what I heard, but now mostly edit draft text that has been washed through speech recognition (SR) software.
I'm working right now and just had a minor example: Dictated: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splint her." SR: "I told the father there may be a minor fracture and I wanted to splinter."
Here's another: D: "The patient heard a loud cracking noise." SR: The patient her allowed cracking noise."
Two words: Job. Security.
I contributed many examples of this stuff to Don Gaynor's humor thread, half unintentional humor by dictators and half SR oopsies. It's on pg. 40 for anyone who wants to have a shufti.
R.
I find that my nexus 7 is not too bad at SR. I remember when I got my first computer in it was an IBM package I think that was in fashion.
Not too sure if its dragon naturally speaking who lead the field now. I have tried SR a few times. Gives me a laugh the examples it comes up with.
Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2025, Cubase 14, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use
I wish my company's SR technology was a fraction as good as my transcription company, Nuance Communications (NCS), represents it to be to physicians and hospitals, who never see the raw output. I worked with another SR engine made by NCS's chief rival, M*Modal, which was truly superior. It had built-in productivity tools for us editors. Besides learning speakers' voices, it learned on the back end as well, meaning that it picked up on an individual editor's style and adjusted accordingly. The potential is there.
Dragon Naturally Speaking is the flagship consumer product of NCS, who are also behind the embedded SR technology in the iPhone and elsewhere. (AFAIK they are not behind the Siri speech engine; speech synthesis is a whole 'nother deal.) The draft text from our commercial product can be so bad that a handful of editors actually buy and install Dragon and redictate what they hear rather than attempting to edit the draft version, believing redictation to be faster. It's also used as a way to compensate for or prevent carpal tunnel syndrome and other RSIs.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
SIRI was an early project developed by the Stanford Research Institute International and the SIRI moniker itself is an anagram of the Institute's Initials, SRII.
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