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by DougMerritt 1145 days ago
Right -- although many things that are ambiguous in text are disambiguated in actual speech, so the problems that arise with audio speech are not wholly the same as with text.

A classic example is the word "record", which has first syllable stress as a noun, but second syllable stress as a verb. "I bought a RECord" vs "Please reCORD the music".

(in the dominant American dialect; I don't recall about other dialects/countries)