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Letter: Letters : Too much talk

Published 17 August 1996

From Dawn Willix-Payne

London

David Gaskill sings the praises of voice recognition by computers (“Working
by Words”, Letters, 15 June, p 52
). This may be fine for those who are
sufficiently elevated to have their own office or who work from home, but would
be considerably less than desirable for those of us who share an office with
several others.

It is difficult enough to concentrate when people are having normal
conversations around you, let alone speaking very slowly and clearly to their
computers. At least keyboard tapping is easy to screen out.

Issue no. 2043 published 17 August 1996

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