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I use Google Voice as my main cell phone number.  When a call goes to voice mail, Google does its best to turn it into text that it then emails to me.  They know it won’t be perfect given the crappy line quality of most phones and untrained speech recognition, but generally it’s plenty good enough to get an idea of what the caller wanted, and then I can listen to the actual message if need be.

Yesterday I was left a message from some robot call for a politician.  (They were actually calling our home phone which was down due to our cable being knocked out by a storm, so our Internet phone system rolled the call over to my cell phone.)  It was such a great translation I now want to run all politicians through the Google Voice filter:

And I would like to, my friends call me ice tea. I’m running for state order because I want to stand up to levels were bankrupting our country. I’m going to be indoors by Joe the plumber 029 for life. User you’d like to live and hundreds of other conservative leaders throughout the state of Missouri. I promised that if elected state water. I wake up every morning looking to root out waste fraud and abuse in our state government. So, please remember allies of want Tuesday August of 3rd Republican primary for state auditor. For more information on the campaign or to donate, please go to eyes it for order dot com. That I C E T F O R water dot com. This message was paid for by eyes of the order wingman Treasurer.

I dream of becoming wingman Treasurer someday.

If you’re really curious, here’s the actual message:  

  
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