Re: Does the following...

[Andrew Farmer <andfarm () teknovis com>]

On 10 Sep 2004, at 17:18, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:20:14 PDT, Andrew Farmer said:
> > Didn't get the OP's message, but yes. If there's no microphone
> > attached, then the sound card (and, by extension, speech recognition)
> > can start picking up radio announcers. Spooky, eh?
>
> Man, are they *still* selling sound cards that are *that* crappy and
> unshielded? (And I thought the built-in microphone on my Dell laptop
> blew chunks just because it has a tendency to pick up the hum of the
> disk drive motor when the gain is cranked up.... ;)

Apparently, yes. This is a known occurrence.

Support:
- Text includes some text that one might expect in radio
  - "San Bernardino 90" (traffic report)
- Speech-to-text errors
  - "nineteen 89" (1989 - nobody would ever type this)
  - "A BA, maybe" ("maybe -- maybe")
  - "9¢" ("nonsense")

To other posters:
- RF keyboards don't exist. Nobody's *that* unconcerned about security.
- Bluetooth keyboards require a pairing process to work, so that's not
  too likely.
- Bayesian-defeating text? Explain to me why that'd be showing up in
  Word.
- Random prose script? Falls to Occam's razor: why would it be 
implemented
  in Word (other than as a prank)?

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