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Business Transcription service rev.com cuts "professional transcriptionists'" effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 Cory Doctorow

facebook Facebook voice-to-text Messenger users got no warning of human transcribers Xeni Jardin

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Copyfight Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow

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corporate misconduct Lyrics website used clever encoding to catch Google copying its content Mark Frauenfelder

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phone A simple cordless handset that sounds good and doesn't record voicemail Jason Weisberger