Miscellaneous: When Speech Recognition Software Gets it Wrong

I use speech recognition software in my work and sometimes to do other writing (dictating this blog entry, for example).  It's usually quite accurate, and when it's not, it's my fault as often as not.  Generally, it spews out complete nonsense when it doesn't understand. Sometimes, however,  a mistake is intelligible--if not quite appropriate in a business document. Today, I laughed out loud when the software wrote this for me:

"In that year, the company had 23 consolidated subsidiaries and employed a total of three cows and 126 people."

Um, that should have been "a total of 3,126 people."