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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:01 PM

Ulrich!

The Scottish accent skit was hilarious!! Thanks for the laugh! I can just see that scenario happening over and over as artificial intelligence takes over our world!

Scary thought eh?!?

Cheers!!

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 4, 2017 12:42 AM

I just wonder how these voice recognition thingies would cope with the different German accents? They are so far apart from what is known as "High German", on which the systems are based, that I doubt they are much better than what was shown in the skit. I live near Hamburg, but my place already has a different accent! Folks from Hamburg are lost in Bavaria, Saxony or Swabia.

I remember my car phone having that feature - it hardly ever worked!

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Posted by Enzoamps on Monday, December 4, 2017 1:54 AM

My browser adds spell check to every forum I use but this one, I wish it did work here.

What I most miss in this forum, however, is a feature in every other forum I attend:  a "go to first new post" button.  A busy thread with three pages of posts, and if I post on page 2, when I come back, I have to scan through post after post to find where I left off.  And if I was reading but not posting, I have to remember whwich posts I have read and which not.  The simple go to first new post feature makes that simple.

I open an ongoing thread, then click the first new post button and it scrolls em down to where we left off last.

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Posted by selector on Monday, December 4, 2017 10:03 AM

Enzoamps

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What I most miss in this forum, however, is a feature in every other forum I attend:  a "go to first new post" button.  A busy thread with three pages of posts, and if I post on page 2, when I come back, I have to scan through post after post to find where I left off.  And if I was reading but not posting, I have to remember whwich posts I have read and which not.  The simple go to first new post feature makes that simple.

I open an ongoing thread, then click the first new post button and it scrolls em down to where we left off last.

 

Our hosts offer a complete model train experience; their forums are intended to mimic the experience on has at your local hobby shop where you have to get on your knees, reach high, and bring a flashlight to see the stuff stacked two or three deep, way back there in the shadows.  It's an experience one really must have as often as possible.  There's no other quite like it. Stick out tongue

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, December 4, 2017 10:18 AM

YOUR BROWSEWR PROVIDES THE SPELL CHECK not the forum.

Why does it not work?

This window is NOT on your browser, it is a Flash and/or a Java window (Or some similar application) and it does not have access to your browser's speil cheque.

Other forums and the previous version of this forum was using an HTML form that had akcessess to your speilc chexque systyem.

If all else fails just make up some wrod that lookes slique watt ewe wanted to slay  and go with that. Peopoles wil thinque ewe are being gughney.

 

 

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Posted by E-L man tom on Monday, December 4, 2017 2:09 PM

I always, always check my posts before submitting. If there's a word I'm not sure of the spelling on I'll go into my word processing program and get the correct spelling. but then, I probably still have some mistakes. Sometimes I'll go back and look at my post at a later time, or after I just posted it and find a mistake. Thankfully they have an "edit" feature for that.

Tom Modeling the free-lanced Toledo Erie Central switching layout.
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Posted by tedtedderson on Monday, December 4, 2017 8:55 PM

BroadwayLion

YOUR BROWSEWR PROVIDES THE SPELL CHECK not the forum.

Why does it not work?

This window is NOT on your browser, it is a Flash and/or a Java window (Or some similar application) and it does not have access to your browser's speil cheque.

Other forums and the previous version of this forum was using an HTML form that had akcessess to your speilc chexque systyem.

If all else fails just make up some wrod that lookes slique watt ewe wanted to slay  and go with that. Peopoles wil thinque ewe are being gughney.

 

 

ROAR

 

Hi Larry us!

 

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