Garfield by Jim Davis for March 24, 2019

I don’t like smartphones with a stupid sense of humor. and whoever heard of Lorenzo Nevermind?

Why does Jon have a phone with Siri in it?

Just seeing Garfield look so blase about everything until the last two panels…

Time to get a smarter phone, Jon.

This, by the way, is why I don’t bother using voice-recognition software. It never gets anything right!

I wonder how long before voice recognition is as accurate as family or a friend?

I was smiling like Garfield today as I watched a girl yelling into her “smart” watch repeatedly, because it kept getting her text reply wrong. (In fact, she started out talking normally, and with each attempt, her voice got a little louder and more annoyed, kind of like Jon’s did.)

And the beginning of a new TV show, A.I. gone bad.

Well Liz is certainly more Thrillsome than Jon and Garfield.

And that’s why I never use voice activation software. Buggier than a trash can on a hot summer’s day…

Ha ha ha ha ha

Artificial intelligence.

A nice little tribute to the late Lorenzo Music, who (for those unaware) voiced Garfield on “Garfield and Friends” and several other specials for many years.

I tried using the voice activated search feature once . I wanted to find a movie starring Myrna Loy (1930’s actress). Lets just say that I am still waiting for the police to ask why I was trying to find movies about minor boys as that now appears tobe something I searched for.

Any relation to O. Forgettit?

I immediately thought of Lorenzo Music who was the voice of Carlton Your Doorman in the old Rhoda sitcom.

I will never use voice recognition software for this reason. Besides, I sooooo enjoy screaming into the phone when I get one of those automated menus telling you to press or say “1” for this, “2” for that, in order to route you to the right department……

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. And that is why I go to my contact list, pick the contact I want to call, and call him/her myself.

smartphones should be calles stupid phones!!!

Will this phone become a regular character on Garfield?

Does it have a British female accent?

I had that problem with Siri constantly mixing up “Call Dad” with “Call Dan”. I solved it by changing “Dan” to “Danny” (a nickname he sometimes uses.)

Calling JPuzzleWHIZ?

This is so accurate, holy cow.

AYUP

Am I the only person who still dials?

There is a reason I never bother with voice control.

Based on a true story. Someone I know was having issues calling a number using talk tech. So when he demonstrated, it was him trying to spell out the radio station he was calling. I suggested him trying to say something that sounded like the station’s call letters, and it worked.

This is a throwback to Garfield’s original voice actor, Lorenzo Music.

I know of a man named Cyril Nobody.

I’ve had that problem.

Siri sometimes…

This is why I don’t have a smartphone.

That phone is a riot

I hate when smart phones do that

Voice recognition technology just isn’t where we’d like it to be yet.