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摘要

Feedback has recently been watching snooker and soccer on TV, all in the interests of science, of course. The excuse is that there is no better way to check the state of play on voice recognition technology. TV stations use voice recognition to subtitle live sports programmes for people who are deaf or hearing-impaired. The BBC has installed a system called ViaVoice from IBM, and during a recent snooker tournament it tried the brave experiment of directly displaying what the computer made of the commentators' words. The result was hilarious nonsense, sometimes accidentally obscene. So the BBC has modified the system for the World Cup. Ahead of the games, trained staff teach the computer the names of the players and key phrases. Then, during the match, the computers "re-speak" whatever the commentators are saying.