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by r_singh 1761 days ago
that’s what the software does, it dictates the text…
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tirpen 1761 days ago
No, it does the exact opposite.

Dictation is writing down what someone is saying.

This is software that says what someone writes down.

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sdevonoes 1761 days ago
> Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictation_(exercise)

Here the software is the "person who is dictating".

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layer8 1761 days ago
It’s not dictation if the spoken text is not recorded or written down by a device (voice recorder) or by a human.
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tirpen 1760 days ago
> Here the software is the "person who is dictating".

And who is the "person who is taking dictation" then? Who is writing down the words the software is speaking?

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hopesthoughts 1758 days ago
No, not really. It just reads it. You're basically talking about a screen reader, and we don't use the term dictation.
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