another game of telephone

Google Voice has one-upped itself...three-upped, even. I wrote the other day about how the Google voicemail-transcription service can result in a kind of found comedy; well, today Google took that to a new level.

Here is what the caller* actually said: "All I can think of is pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, pancakes." Funny in itself. Here's what Google thought she said [and you can click to enlarge the screenshot if the font is too OED-condensed for you]:

The best part—well, or let's just say one great part—is that the darker the letters, the surer Google is that the word is right. So Google was real confident about "dick suck."

Another good one just yesterday was when a friend said, "I am going to say nonsense now for the benefit of your Google Voice," and then the only thing that Google really got wrong was "to say nonsense," which came out as "tuesday $0.09"—that one was just sort of perfect. But I'm not sure there's really any way to beat "it's been taken care of a dick suck a dick suck a dick suck a dick suck."

DOPEY SITCOM-STYLE JOKE: She must really like pancakes! [Doesn't actually make sense.]

* A Gentleman Caller...but a lady. Sort that one out.