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Related to material in The Lost Language
by David H. Keller
This is a fascinating story that not only introduces very early examples of machine translation of speech-to-text and text-to-speech, it also is a story about what we would call an autistic boy ten years before Kanner and Asperger wrote their classic papers in the early 1940's.
Science fiction in the News articles describe real-world events that relate to the ideas and inventions in sf novels and movies. Select a news article:
K-NFB Portable Text To Speech
Inventor Ray Kurzweil has portable text to speech ready - how long ago did sf writers think about this idea?
NTT Real-Time Voice Transcriber
Note-taking in long boring meetings will be a thing of the past, thanks to NTT.
AI Note-Taking From Google Meet
'... the new typewriter that could be talked to, and which transposed the spoken sound into typed words.' - Dr. David H. Keller, 1934.
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re: William Gibson
(3/25/2025)
re: Chris Boyce
(3/21/2025)
re: Anthony Boucher
(3/17/2025)
