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Look who’s talking
Want to compose your documents by voice instead of by keystrokes?
Mom probably never thought that her advice to ‘think before you speak’ applied to technical speaking, but today, that’s all you really need to do to use dictation software.
Current systems are so reliable that even a child’s voice can serve as a suitable input. Not that you’d want baby Kaylie dictating court proceedings, but it’s technologically possible. If you were going to choose Kaylie’s voice, the setup might look something like this:
Benevolent types only
Fortunately, two decades of steady improvements have untethered the technical speaker from desktops in quiet rooms. You could say that technical speaking is as easy as chattering on a cel phone – if you know exactly what you’re about to say.
Here’s what New York Times columnist David Pogue writes—er speaks—about the latest dictation software.
Another day, another money
That was the translation offered by an Asian gentleman as I paid for a bus pass. I had to know if the same symbol represented both money and dollars.
Another day, another money
They appeared to be different enough but conceptually the idiom worked. Learning the global language of money one idiom at a time. Next up:
- sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
- phony as a three-dollar bill
- day late and a dollar short
- bet dollars to donuts