The secret language of trains...

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So I was playing around with Google Voice, specifically the automagically transcribed voicemail. As I was talking, a train passed outside my office, and I learned that Google Voice speaks train

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[aprilstarchild]

How do I make it play??

[aprilstarchild]

all I heard was you saying "test test test" and then a train's whistle. No hellos or anything.

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Oh weird, the embedding on LJ smooshes it all up...

Yea, the train whistles ended up translated as "hello hello hello"

[erinpoo]

Does it translate other machine-language, too? Alarm clocks? Cellular phones? Maybe we could finally find out what "PC Load Ltr" means...

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I called it and read a german news article into it.

It sat there for a while and then eventually gave up. "Transcription not available"

I'll try later with the alarm clock!