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I'm a technology consultant, focused on enterprise collaborative applications. I'm based in North-east Scotland but work all over Europe, and sometimes I present at technology conferences using a mixture of deep-technology and humour to keep the audience awake.

I'm married with one grown-up daughter of whom I'm immensely proud, and have family members covering most significant time-zones. We took 'hide and seek' seriously.

Other interests include making excuses not to go to the gym, testing the tolerance of my peers with humour, and sometimes bringing my 20-year old ZZR 600 out of the garage to terrify myself with.

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Thursday
Sep022010

Voice Recognition - in Scotland

DateThursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:03PM

If you have a problem with bad language - well- then your going to have a problem. Funny though.

AuthorBill Buchan | Comment4 Comments |

Reader Comments (4)

Brilliantly funny. Telstra here in Australia use voice recognition and it has all sorts of problems with my Bristolian accent - it always understands "I'm having trouble paying my account" and puts you straight through to a person.

September 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJohn Stockbridge

O M G!! I watched this in the office and people came from three offices over because they heard me laugh so hard ... "FREEDOM!" I have not seen anything this funny since .. I dunno. Bill - make a collection page of Scotlands funniest skits on your site, you just have to!!

September 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterVictor Toal

Now there's a challenge.. ;-)

--* Bill

September 3, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterBill

Some insurance companies realised that people hate these error prone systems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q41AVM3GwGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2byjWWfA_M

September 8, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTedette

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