Voice recognition for inputting
When I'm with my sister Heidi, whether it be in Seattle or northeast Ohio or anywhere else in the world, she's often talking to Siri. She asks Siri to look up information about trees, about food, about traditional medicines, about Yoga, about genealogy, and anything else she wants to investigate. Above all, when we're driving around, she asks Siri for directions about how to get where we're going.
To me, who doesn't even own a cell phone, this is all quite miraculous. A few days ago, at the conclusion of my "Language, Script, and Society in China" class, however, a new (for me) dimension of voice recognition was demonstrated by one of the students.
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