Voice Recognition Trivia

 A little TRIVIA:  

    When I asked Google when the first piggy bank was invented, I got, “Western Europeans weren't the only ones making piggy banks. Indeed the first true piggy banks — terracotta banks in the shape of a pig with a slot in the top for depositing coins — were made in Java as far back as the 14th century.”

     Then I searched and found the definition of piggy bank as “a small bank provided with a slot at the top to receive small coins.”

     Since I am writing this article I suppose I can write it according to the way I want.  I believe the actual first piggy bank was created much, much earlier than the 14^th century.

     I found in 2 Kings 12, when Jehoash was king of Jerusalem, in verse 9, the following: “But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the Lord: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.”    Hmmm, could this have been the 1^st piggy bank?

My next trivia deals with voice recognition. 

     According to Wikipedia voice recognition refers to “determining who is speaking and/or determining what is being said.”   Next I found the following on when voice recognition began:  “The earliest voice recognition technologies could only comprehend digits.  Audrey system, built by Bell Labs in 1952 considered to be the first speech recognition device, recognized only ten digits spoken by a single voice.”

     This is where I dispute the creator and the date of voice recognition, as well.  Actually the very first voice recognition, in my opinion, was not created by man, and it was created at the beginning of time. 

     This is proven in Genesis when God created the heaven and the earth.  He spoke, “And let there be light…and let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters…”  Now let’s take it a step further.  In Mark 4 we find Jesus was on a boat with His disciples when “a great storm of wind came up and the waves beat into the ship”.  In verse 39 Jesus spoke again, “And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still.  And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”    This is Voice Recognition!

Trivia

     While reading Nehemiah 12 this morning, I paused to re-read verse 46, (NLT) "The custom of having choir directors to lead the choirs in hymns of praise and thanksgiving to God began long ago in the days of David and Asaph."  How could I have missed this until today?  What a great trivia question! 
     In order to verify this New Living Translation, I looked up the King James version, "For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God."  Next, I looked up the New International Version,  "For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the musicians and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God."
     Don't ask me why trivia came to mind, but it did.  This led me to pull up a scriptural trivia quiz.  Having never been good with trivia, I was surprised when I got the first 2 quizzes of five questions correct, but the quizzes kept getting harder, so I quit after missing all of the next 2 sets.   
     No wonder I missed a few, for example:

Isaiah tells us to make straight what in the desert to prepare the way of the Lord?
  1. Street
  2. River
  3. Highway
  4. Interstate
     My logical mind ruled out all but river because, back in that day, there were no streets, highways, or interstates.  Wrong answer!  Isaiah 40:3 "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."

Here's another:
What does the Lord tell Isaiah he will plant in the wilderness?
  1. The Cedar
  2. Shittah tree
  3. The Myrtle
  4. Oil Tree
  5. All of the above
I did not have a clue, but I guessed they had Olive Oil, so I selected Oil tree.  Wrong answer, again.  Isaiah 41:19 "I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:"   Correct answer, "All of the Above."  Who knew? Certainly not me. 

Stay tuned for more trivia to come ...