Date:    Tue, 26 May 1998 14:38:49 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: new word: speako
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<br>When you're dictating text to your computer with speech recognition software*,
<br> and you say "third person plural" and the
<br>screen shows "third person pleural", what do you call this substitution of one
<br> real word for another? ("Pleural", with
<br>"eu", is a medical term.) For something like a year, maybe longer, SR users and
<br> developers have been calling it a
<br>"speako", on the model of "typo". I think "talko" was another candidate, but
<br> "speako" seems to have won out.
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<br>       Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com
<br>*   Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 796-0267
<br> 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/
<br>           Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/
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