In the great green room...

My favorite book of all time is Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. I have loved this book ever since I was a little girl; I think it may have been this book that resulted in my need to see the moon each night before I went to sleep - my Dad would wrap me in a blanket and carry me outside to see it. We have got like four or five copies of this book in our home, and we read it to James regularly - he is getting to the point where he really enjoys books, and he even points at the mouse in the picture! So cute. It's kind of crazy how these things come full circle!

Well, tonight Jonathan and I were playing around with the computer, and we noticed that it has a voice recognition program. In theory, instead of typing a document, you just speak the words out loud and the computer types it for you. Jonathan went through the little tutorial and learned a little bit about it, and then we just tried it out with a blank word processing document. I decided it would be fun to recite Goodnight Moon (because I have it memorized, of course) and see what the computer picks up.

Just in case you're not familiar with this book, here is how the text really goes:

In the great green room
There was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of the cow jumping over the moon

And there were three little bears sitting on chairs
And two little kittens
And a pair of mittens
And a little toy house and a young mouse
And a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush
And a quiet old lady who was whispering "hush"

Goodnight room
Goodnight moon
Goodnight cow jumping over the moon
Goodnight light and the red balloon

Goodnight bears
Goodnight chairs

Goodnight kittens
Goodnight mittens

Goodnight clocks
Goodnight socks

Goodnight little house
And goodnight mouse

Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush

Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady whispering "hush"

Goodnight stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere

So, pretty simple, right? A computer, with its advanced technology, could totally pick up these simple words and repetitive phrases. Well, here is our voice-dictated computer version. Really, it is amazing how close it came to the original. Oh, and my favorite parts are the part about Iraq, the pianist, "goodnight BS" and the "bowl full of months." See if this goodnight story puts you to sleep:

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