Re: [microsound] OT: those programs spammers use to generate random text?

[Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

that is such a cool story and a great idea. thanks!

On 9-Oct-06, at 3:39 PM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:

> Some years ago, soon after 9-11 happened, my girlfriend got a new  
> Dell PC laptop computer. One time after getting this new computer  
> she was typing something  in the MS Word program and as she typed  
> words started appearing that she herself was not entering.  The  
> phrases were goobledy-gook for the most part interspersed with  
> brief word strings of intelligible text. The intelligible text word  
> strings had to do with hijackers, terrorist stuff, and various hot  
> and threatening types of news.  The computer seemed to be picking  
> up some sort of secret terrorist communications almost as if it was  
> jihadist automatic writing! It was unnerving to say the least in  
> the paranoid mood after 9-11.  We investigated this by calling Dell  
> tech service and they told us that the computer probably shipped  
> with the voice/text recognition feature switched on.  We then  
> discovered that the laptop was picking up television broadcast news  
> snippets from the tv that was on in the corner of the room and  
> entering some of the newscaster's spoken words as written text.
> You might try duplicating this with a voice to text program.....in  
> a glitched kind of way.
>
> TA


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