28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
4:12 p.m.
D. Peschel wrote:
There have been voice activated typewriters since at least the 1870s.
Place a secretary between your voice and the typewriter. Unless
you're really a silicon chauvinist...
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Unless you used "1000 word vocab" to
qualify the claim, in which case I
still think there may be an earlier contender. Speech recongition goes
back a long way, perhaps as far back as the 50s.
I saw a reference to a voice-activated typewriter that was patented in 1916.
(No, that is not a typo.) Unforunately the site isn't in my bookmark file
or if it is, the reference isn't easily accessible.