Chapter 57 5. Voice-activated typewriter

Processing text work with computer, the input method of text has many kinds.From personal experience, the most useful and practical one is the voice-activated input method, that is, the text to be input is read out, through the device, the voice becomes text, displayed on the screen, printed out, and you're done. I have always wondered why this best input method is not appreciated by people at all. After the software was launched, because there were very few users, it disappeared soon after. It is a pity. Apple Computer was the first to introduce this input method. Indeed, when it was just started to be used, there was a certain degree of difficulty, just like the railroad tracks must be laid for a train to run. Some people will laugh: so troublesome, laying the rails. Arrived, also went wow!Little did they know that after the pavement was finished, the train roared and arrived at its destination soon.

I wrote more than 30 novels (about three to four million words) using this method, and the more I used it, the smoother it became, until the writing quota was exhausted, and I still miss it very much. I miss some interesting things when I was using it. The pronunciation of Mandarin is not accurate. Every time there is computer-style humor, I can enjoy it for a long time.For example, whenever something is read out, the words that pop up on the screen are: Chairman Mao. The first time I saw it, I was so frightened that I wanted to slap my chest. During the Cultural Revolution, this was a serious crime of losing your head!In order to avoid panic, read what and things separately, so that you can sleep peacefully.Another example is thinking about reason, but what comes out is violence. After thinking about it for a while, it is right. Violence is reason, isn’t it? Whoever has violence has reason. The stronger the violence, the greater the reason!

After writing the first novel with voice-activated input, I said in the preface: I am very greedy: the era of turning voice into words has come, will the era of turning thoughts into words be far behind? A few days ago, I read reports that scientists have been able to stimulate the vocal tissue of the larynx with thoughts (brain wave activity) to produce sounds.You can make a sound with your thoughts, and the sound can be converted into words, that is, as long as you think about it, the article will appear! The imagination of the day turned out to be the reality of today, what a pleasure!