We use Vonage for our home phone service. One of it’s features is that it transcribes voicemail messages and delivers them directly to my email inbox. Lately, Vonage’s transcription chops have gotten a little sketchy (or maybe it’s just sloppy mouthed message leavers?). To be fair, Vonage not only transcribes, but also sends an audio file attachment of the actual message. Even better than the service Vonage provides, is the entertainment thanks to some of the transcriptions. Here’s an excerpt of the latest message (brackets are editorial comments and ellipses are where I left out the uninteresting or not entertaining parts!:
Hello parents, this is an important message from the [the local school district] about registering your child for the upcoming 2012 2013 school year. Wait till I guess two years we used to have a new online registration system …You should have received an informational flyer up out this new process with your child slash report car.. Your child school will have computers and printers available for use beginning July 9, wake a liar. She is pleased to offer pine shaving online registration. And we encourage you to take it.