Aberdeen

Twelve years ago, dictation software still struggled to make sense of its master's voice. I'm a middling typist but very accustomed to making sense of what I write as I write it. Nevertheless, I was fascinated by a technique used by writers as diverse as Graham Greene and John Updike -- insofar as they dictated texts that later were transcribed. But here was software that would transcribe my prose even as I spoke! Or would it? I wish I could recall what I was saying when the software presented what follows. It's a verbatim transcription to which I added only punctuation and line breaks.
 

                                                                               

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– 18 June 1999