The Scariest Phenomenon You Android Phone Is Capable Of Performing

I wrote this up on another blog first, (GLP gets credit here), and got confirmation from the readers there that this works, (some of the time). On my google powered android phone, there is a feature on the keyboard called, “speech to text.” Essentially, if you push a little microphone button on the screen and say a few sentences into the phone, it will put the words into a text message so that you don’t have to type while driving. It’s actually a pretty cool feature and I use it now and again.

Here is the scary thing I discovered that will blow you away: My buddy and I were listening to a New York Yankees game in my car and the game was being broadcast in real time. I was showing him the “speech to text” feature on the phone and we decided to see if it could tell what the broadcaster of the game was saying. I tried pushing the “speech to text” icon and held the phone next to my car’s speaker. The announcer was just talking about something random, and I expected the screen to display what he had just said in the text box.

I was blown away when instead of displaying the words on the screen that the announcer had just said (in real time), the phone displayed the name of the broadcast company in New York transmitting the game. My friend looked at me and said, “That is really weird man.”

Next, I went and wrote a thread on a blog where I knew other people would look into the phenomenon with me, (thanks GLP). The responses I got from other people were even creepier than what happened to me. One reader tried holding it to their television during an episode of Law and Order. Instead of displaying the words spoken by the actors, the blogger’s phone displayed the message, “44th and Broadway, New York, NY.”

It appears that there is some type of data encrypted in certain media broadcasts that google’s “speech to text” feature picks up on and displays, that is different than what you hear with the human ear. The most bizarre thing about the phenomenon is the ability for the “speech to text” feature to know what it is listening to even in a live broadcast. There is only a delay of a few seconds in a live sports broadcast and the computing power needed to recognize and analyze that in real time would be far more than we are led to believe currently exists.

So here you go my readers: take you android phone, follow the steps as if you were going to send someone a text message, then hit the microphone button and hold it up to a media broadcast and see what you get. This amazing discovery is brought to you by NTZ.

Finally, addressing copyright issues, “speech to text” does not save a file and cannot be rebroadcast in any way. In discovering and using this glitch, I never sent a text message but only investigated what the feature would have sent and therefore never rebroadcast any material. Therefore, your lawyers can do nothing more to me than someone who uses “speech to text” with their television or radio on in the background. Sorry, I have a high IQ.

Zoo Keeper