The speech typewriter or automated secretary, in its fully fledged form, i.e. accepting unrestricted connected text by any speaker, may not happen in this century, if ever. A more circumscribed version of the voice typewriter - for example, a machine that produces first-draft quality for a highly specific topic area and for a speaker who has trained the machine - may be possible in this decade [James Flanagan, 1976].
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