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“The majority of text is created using continuous speech recognition (CSR) dictation software, but keyboards are still used. CSR is very accurate, far more so than the human transcriptionists who were used up until a few years ago.”
Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2009The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Chapter 9 ('2009'); text reproduced in 'Claim Chowder: Ray Kurzweil, "2009"', Fair Use Blog, 31 December 2009
In 2009 the overwhelming majority of text was still typed on physical and touchscreen keyboards; dictation software remained a niche tool, and even Kurzweil's own 2010 defense of his scorecard did not claim this one as a hit.