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A study carried out for voice to text messaging service SpinVox has suggested that 70 per cent of all language used in voicemails isn’t in the dictionary.
According to SpinVox, who have developed their D2 system for translating voice messages into written words, a staggering amount of a given voicemail is statistically likely to be non-standard English.
Spogs
Although SpinVox provide a list of 10 obscure words that they have found – including brammer (outstanding), jangle (gossip) and spogs (sweets) – many of the colloquialisms are more familiar.
Dreckly meaning immediately is flagged up which, surely, is a accent corruption of ‘directly’ and hot (to throw) has been around for years.
70%? Really?
However, despite TechRadar’s doubts over the 70 per cent figure (surely a massive percentage of all language is common but dictionary-bound words like a, and, then, what and, of course hello, hi, hey, etc) it is fair to suggest that translating rural accents from Scouse to Glaswegian, odd words and slang is no mean feat.
Apparently SpinVox’s D2 can do just that, so you can finally have that written translation of that mad Geordie aunt you don’t really understand by merely screening all her calls to voicemail.
Haway.
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According to SpinVox, who have developed their D2 system for translating voice messages into written words, a staggering amount of a given voicemail is statistically likely to be non-standard English.
Spogs
Although SpinVox provide a list of 10 obscure words that they have found – including brammer (outstanding), jangle (gossip) and spogs (sweets) – many of the colloquialisms are more familiar.
Dreckly meaning immediately is flagged up which, surely, is a accent corruption of ‘directly’ and hot (to throw) has been around for years.
70%? Really?
However, despite TechRadar’s doubts over the 70 per cent figure (surely a massive percentage of all language is common but dictionary-bound words like a, and, then, what and, of course hello, hi, hey, etc) it is fair to suggest that translating rural accents from Scouse to Glaswegian, odd words and slang is no mean feat.
Apparently SpinVox’s D2 can do just that, so you can finally have that written translation of that mad Geordie aunt you don’t really understand by merely screening all her calls to voicemail.
Haway.
More...