On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, nix(a)esperi.org.uk suggested tentatively:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, David Kastrup said:
[referring
not-very-obliquely to a *telephone*]
> With regard to RSI avoidance and speech recognition: there is
just
> that _amazing_ speech recognition technology that can deal with
> varying pronunciation by using specialized dictionaries.
I've tried them (well, a couple of years back, when a friend got
one). They have a ~40% error rate with me.
It appears that I am a total idiot, incapable of recognising a
phone number when I see one. :/
It's not my day today. (I'll probably find that new defaults.el package
has a hidden bug which makes machines burst into flames or something,
too.)
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`Blish is clearly in love with language. Unfortunately,
language dislikes him intensely.' --- Russ Allbery