On my way home tonight, I remembered something that had to do with speech recognition, which I forgot to bring up in class. I work at a bank, and last Friday someone left a cell phone (I don’t know what kind it was – a Blackberry maybe? It seemed high-tech, anyway!). Well we called the last contact on the phone which happened to be the person’s roommate, and she said she would let him know where his phone was. The next morning when we opened the vault (where we had put the phone the night before for safekeeping with everything else), the phone started beeping. We thought it was a call or a message coming through so didn’t pay attention. But a few minutes later one of my co-workers was on her phone and the phone started beeping again and when she looked at it, it was recording! It was obviously voice-activated and was recording our conversations – it had even recorded some conversations of accounts being opened! Our first thoughts were that someone was casing out the bank, which is a really creepy thought! When my manager got there, however, she did not seem to think it was a big deal. I think it’s because she’s old and does not really know how to use a computer or any sort of new technology. So my question is, can people set cell phones to be voice-activated, or is there another trick to it? Do you have to download some kind of software or is it something that comes automatically programmed? I don’t know, it’s all very strange. Hmmm…