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That time a rando told Thomas Edison that he should invent a speech-to-text engine

David Weinberger writes, “I just blogged about a 1911 letter in the Thomas Edison digital archive in which the former mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, proposed that Edison take his Gramophone one step further and invent a speech-to-text transcriber. Edison replied, albeit curtly.”

The problem you speak of would be enormously difficult I cannot at present time imagine how it could be done.

When Edison chose not to invent speech-to-text tech [David Weinberger/Joho the Blog]

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