Captcha identify

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Tim Chase
<python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2014-08-13 12:24, Chris Kaynor wrote:
>> Many of the better captchas also include options for an audio cue in
>> addition to the default visual one.
>
> Have you actually tried to use the audio cue?  They're atrocious.  I
> got more intelligible words out of my old 8-bit SoundBlaster or a
> de-tuned radio station.  I'm all for just ditching them (and avoiding
> sites that employ them).

Just like the images, if they were easy to understand then they would
be easily defeated by a spambot with a speech recognition module.  I
think the effort to make captcha systems more accessible is laudable,
if perhaps misguided.