Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Voice Recognition Star Wars

While doing the photographs for the latest Patton Project, I came up with one of my more brilliant ideas. I had put on my favourite movie, Star Wars: A New Hope, to play in the background while I took pictures. Then I decided to Twitter about it, but in a unique way: I used an iPhone app called "Vlingo" that can translate your voice into text and then post it to Twitter. I figured I'd see how it handled my favourite Star Wars quotes. It's not exactly 100% accurate (especially when doing Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi impressions), but that was the main point: let's see how the text gets mangled.

I actually came up with the voice recognition idea a little way into the movie, and missed a few of the quotes at the beginning, so I've gone back and added a few at the beginning and a few I missed in the middle, but all have been Vlingoed. See how many you can recognize!
  1. "Long time ago and galaxy far far west"
  2. "We do"
  3. "is this a calls lecture where is the am about to go"
  4. "There's 1 set to stun"
  5. "I'm going to regret this" (score!)
  6. "Call die before she tells you anything"
  7. "Don't get to the with may"
  8. "Call Tuesday to it is you did his you'll"
  9. "web search George"
  10. "Poser program for etiquette and protocol"
  11. "Can you speak bocce" (wow!)
  12. "Is going to Austin to pick up some parking burgers"
  13. "the start to unit have a bad motivator"
  14. "Bank of America, well that is going to feels so good"
  15. "hi and see 3 PO Ching side alterations"
  16. "You're the 1 Canobie for my only hope"
  17. "We are just crazy old Matt"
  18. "Is going to check the baby"
  19. "It's around us Patrick source pines the galaxy picked up"
  20. "Dangers your Starfleet command at not just the Playstation"
  21. "The ability to destroy upset insignificant next to the power of the folks"
  22. "Send people always ride single file I need the number is"
  23. "I find your lack of state and disturbing"
  24. "Quantum on the way to the force become a gym I love my father"
  25. "Most Isley spaceport you'll never find out more rigid hive of scum and put it in a"
  26. "Google need to see if this application"
  27. "At the joy joy looking for"
  28. "We go serpentine here"
  29. "This s*** the bed Kessel run with 12 parts sex" (it put in the asterixes itself...)
  30. "traveling to Harbor Stacy like bustin crops bored"
  31. "Loof for another topic American retarded than they move systems"
  32. "That's no moon it's the space station" (very close!)
  33. "Who is more for lish the folk all the fool who doesn't"
  34. "What an incredible snow you discovered"
  35. "I got a bad feeling about this" (hey! It got another right!)
  36. "Mike is that walking carpet on my way"
  37. "I love you I was about the monitor now I am the masta"
  38. "Your power is all week old Masson"
  39. "you call twins or if you strike me dial I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
  40. "Story show together c'mon very whole together"
  41. "Baseballs I will Pratts and mighty 16 back home"
  42. "May the force be with you" (another match!)
  43. "Google power to front deflector screens switch l power to front deflector strains"
  44. "Evacuate dynamo the trials I think you overestimate their chances"
  45. "It because like beggars canyon back home"
  46. "You suck balls look" (I SWEAR that's what it came up with)
  47. "you are a queer can know what day is going to go home"
  48. "Call jott kid that was in a million"
  49. "Remember the force be with you always" (close!)
  50. "Calorie!"
And that's the end of "Voice Recognition Star Wars". I hope you had a lovely time. I'll post the answer key in a few days.