A friend of mine who is in graduate school in Canada recently said that he sometimes writes papers while driving thanks to speech recognition software he installed on his Macintosh, which he keeps in the passenger seat next to him. What a boon for us procrastinators of the world! Apparently, though, the program isn’t 100% accurate though it can be trained to learn the contours of your voice.
Even if it were accurate, though, proofreading would of course be necessary. Otherwise, his term paper might end up like this:
“The rate of growth in the Chinese economy has been affected by, uhh, the global financial crisis, and Hey asshole! You cut me off! Umm, where was I……oh. The decline in demand among Western nations has led the government to consider…..um, yeah…that’ll be a Big Mac, large fries, and a medium Coke.”
Or maybe it works, who knows?
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