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Hamukotoday at 8:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

Doubt it considering that Daniel Stenberg is Swedish. English dictation when you speak English as a second language with an accent is quite annoying.


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Tistrontoday at 8:33 AM

Voice input works really well for people speaking English with a Swedish accent. I think the accent of most educated Swedes is mostly a case of prosody. For sure there are some sounds we say slightly differently than native English speakers. We often have some trouble with /s/ and /z/, but I don't know, "war and peace", I think that's easily understood.

Source: voice typing this with Swedish vocal chords, and only had to correct "different lives" to "differently", and add /[^\w\s]/.

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dotancohentoday at 9:38 AM

I understand completely. You don't want to know what the machine produced, when I asked it for "a new display".