From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm{at}albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: Microsoft emulates Star Trek...

On 5/06/2014 11:11 AM, Your Name wrote:


> There will always be errors in any automated translation, especially
> spoken translation. Computers simply are intelligent enough to
> understand context, etc.

Back in 1985-88, I was doing my Associate Diploma for Technical Teaching 
and had to write a paper. I did mine on Computer vs Human interfaces 
and, apart from pointing out the confusion with there/their/they're, I 
gave another, sailing, example, " *Wind* in the sails as the *wind* is 
getting up" and asked how a computer might distinguish between a written 
*wind* and *wind* ??

Daniel

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