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IBM ANNOUNCES VOICE RECOGNITION BRAKE THREW SOMERS, N.Y. (SatireWire.com) — IBM this week unveiled ViaVoice II for Windows, a revolutionary new line of voice recognition software that, the company boasted, makes talking to your computer easier, faster, and "more a curate than ever beef whore." To show off the new software's capabilities, IBM director of voice technology Cameron Kurtz answered interviewer's questions using ViaVoice II's speech-to-text feature, which is designed for both advanced and novice users, and even recognizes proper nouns.
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