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Google does not get much wrong. So when people started noticing the strange inaccuracies of Google Voice, which transcribes voice messages left on users’ phones, there was only one possible explanation: Google had turned its hand to poetry.

Richard Eskow has collated some of the finer examples of Google Poet, which include some absolute gems:

But yeah, just trying to be tomorrow
(if you get the chance)
And if you’re a few Karen in China the next day
Council lot more
eating minnows on the step
and give me a little

And:

This is Bob Nancy Richard.  I am attending the conference and wanted to know if you are.

Also, I see that your skin brush fire
some of the people talking about that.

But my favourite comes from a reader of the blog, who posts:

I’ve saved this one: “Hey Kendall. It’s Julia, John died on my way. It’s Minnesota.”
John did NOT die. But sounds like Minnesota is a killer

The only question now is how long it take Apple to launch a competitor: the iPoet perhaps.

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