It isn’t only men who don’t understand women, computers can’t seem to either.

In a test of a commercial speech recognition software, a group of radiologists consisting of five males and five females dictated a series of ten radiology reports. There was a significantly higher rate of transcription errors for reports dictated by women than those dictated by men.

When women talk they often feel their children don’t listen, their husbands don’t listen, their bosses don’t listen and now it seems, computers don’t listen either.