[WikiEN-l] Captcha word quiz

[James D. Forrester]

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Steve Bennett wrote:

> On 3/21/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Forget eurocentric I suspect you would hit anglocentric. The number of
> > tunes known to everyone is so small the computer could just enter the
> > same answer every time and and get an account soon enough.
> 
> Beyond "happy birthday" I'm at a loss to think of *any* tune known to
> everyone. Maybe the Ode to Joy. Maybe.

Possibly, but selecting the European (Pan-)National Anthem as an example
is a bit of a sop to the "eurocentric" charge. :-)

> > Initialy you could just use plain speach and rely on the issue that
> > no one else uses them so no one is going to bother makeing a bot.
> > More advanced aproaches could involve spoting male and female voices
> > against background noise.

That could work, though automated (unattended) text-to-speech synthesis
has not significantly improved in my lifetime. (Read: it's terrible.
Yes, even IBM's whizzo-prang stuff. Horrendously disjointed and
considerably more difficult to use as a "test" of something's humanity
than would be desired, I feel.)

Yours sincerely,
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James D. Forrester
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