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Thursday
Nov292007

How voice recognition software can wreck a nice speech

You may or may not know that the BBC uses speech-to-text systems to produce the incredible amount of stuff on its website. But though we're sure that real humans also look over the stuff before it goes out, one rule that sub-editors tend to stick to, diligently, is not to change things in quotes.

But it isn't always perfect... [click heading for more]

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