Google Voice is a an interesting, free offering from the Internet giant. You sign up, get a phone number (or use your existing one), and have some nice features available to you. I opted for a new number and was able to get one that includes CASEY01 in it. Neat. (Your mileage may vary.)

Well, one of the new features is that, if someone calls your number and leaves a voice message, Google will transcribe it into text. This way, you can hear the message on your voicemail and you can read the message as well. I get the text versions as a standard text message on my phone as well as an inbox text message on my personal Google Voice website inbox.

What so much fun is that the translation for spoken word to text is often inaccurate. There are many reasons for this. The cell phone originating the call may be garbled, the speaker may be bouncing around in a car or walking, making the speech pattern sound off. Who knows.

Here are some unrelated text translations from my friend, Dixon, who, so far, is the only one actually calling my new number.

Enjoy...


"Hi Dick, this is Dickson hobbled I was just heading over and i thought i'd let. Maybe I should of bats called yesterday and I got the message it sounds sort of like God show up withoutyour and I hope that's how you understood it. Anyway, I'm on my way over, but I realized that the then upset about not getting in touch. Anyway, I was. I'll see you when I see you.Thanks. Bye."


"Thank you. Hey, it's 6 and 2. I was thing, so I'm off. I put the web but I got lost in the day on chat and Shawn that, but I'll be free later in the air. 2. Hello."


"Hi Casey, this is Jason and that's when I get time the rafson it's 5:30 right now and I'm sure there are a Shah, I was just wondering what was works heading over or not, this is numberdidn't get to the subminimum. I will try your other number and see if I get that okay. Talk to you soon. Bye."


I still laugh to myself when I read these.

Google Voice is a good service. Someday, maybe, they'll get this translation thing working better. It's not entirely necessary because the audio version of the message is always available. But, if they can make straight messages sound this funny...I'm all for it never changing!!!