Although they’ve gotten better, I’ve often had difficulty using products that employ speech recognition – perhaps due to my Irish accent. Dealing with accents programmatically has to be a daunting task given just how many accents there are out there. This short clip below shows just some of the accents in the British Isles alone.
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Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
A wonderfully entertaining look at orchestral music from Bill Bailey (if you haven’t seen him before check out Bill Bailey: Part Troll or Black Books), whether you’ve memorized your Study of Orchestration inside out or are pretty new to the orchestra it’s well worth a look.
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