How Good is Google Voice Transcribe for your Voicemail.

A week ago I was very excited to have my phone linked up with Google Voice service.  Tonight Jackson, Jimmy, and I tested the transcribe feature which has proven to be the selling feature of Google Voice.  This is how it works:  when each of us leaves the voicemail on the cellphone, Google Voice voice will transcribe the voice message to a readable message and sends to your email.  We conducted our test while we were eating dinner at AnyTime cafe where the background noise level was high.  But our judges don't believe that would ultimately impact our test outcome because.. this is Google right?

Our 3 honorable testers were (that's right Us):

• Jimmy who has a perfect American accent but can't perfect the barrel rolls in the parking lot in front of my house
• Jackson who loves the real meat and is a disciple of Confucius of Canton
• Nick who tried to practice Muay Thai but quitted because he realized that being Ong Bak is impossible

This is what we saw and read:
Fine Artisan Sake: With this Sake, the Mandarin orage fruit aroma, and the crisp and dry flavor leads to an extremly clean finish.  The aquamarine blue bottle is a signature symbol of this widely popular Junmai Ginjo.

This is what Google transcribed through the email output:


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Jackson the Confucius (24 seconds): Yes, he has to teach July 18th. Do you call. 20. Hey, it's Dr labor house with your target mandarin orange that I will. Hey Nick, It's and drive flavor in the Sudan. The. C. S. E X Business. Okay, bye bye


Nick the Ong Bak (27 seconds):  My heart is in the not case if if I can. The battery in Orangeburg Corolla and the credit and Drive Beverly to an extremely clean image. Yeah, Hello Larry new bottle. Nick, It's signatures. They're all his white color give you my The goal was anyway.

Conclusion

The transcribed results were not even close to any human could imagine hearing.  It's like... Google Voice randomly grabs words from Webster's and Starwars' dictionary and paste them into a sentence. (called it a complete sentence if you lucky enough to have a full stop period at the end)...  One thing to note:  The ads that we all read weren't at all good message for the test.  Since there were no sense and context of normal day to day conversations and  if somehow Google Voice uses the algorithm that accomodate for normal English conversation and not word for word translation then the test can be called invalid.  The bottom line is my conclusion is as confusing as the mail messages from Google Voice.