google voice doesn’t understand chinglish!!
my dad left me a message:
hey (chinese) mei, is this your (/chinese) phone mail? give me a call. (chinese)daddy’s at home right now. i wanted to know whether your jade artwork hangs with the round part at the top or the pointy part at the top? (/chinese) ok. give me a call. bye!
what google voice transcribed it to be:
hey nate this is the that you full of for me on my gimme a call about the johnny net okay way out to the end of the bob and maybe i’ll see you and that’s holding the again at this time and hi samantha it’s ian the don’t use it sounded okay give me a call bye
this puts a damper on my grand plans to give my parents my google voice number so i don’t have to listen through all their voicemails… i’m still going to have to listen through them because the transcription makes no sense!
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a chinglish (or any other language, at that) setting? there’s an idea for you to work on – a chinglish transcriber! you’d make millions..
July 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
wow. haha!