Herman Miller wrote:
> Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Evidently, for live shows like newscasts and CNN's day-long stuff, there
is
> > someone typing in the spoken words as fast as they can (I suppose rather
> > like a court reporter)---- and, quite often, not very accurately--
> With some of the kinds of mistakes that are made, I've often wondered if
> they're using something like voice recognition software; they're not the
> kind of mistakes you'd expect a live person to make.
As a member of the non-wired generation, voice-recog. didn't occur to me,
but I suspect you're right-- the errors usually involve sound-alikes. In my
fusty cynicism, I'd been assuming that the busy little typist was, as might
be expected today, a poor speller................