&gt; I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words&#x2F;names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words. The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn&#x27;t quite get.<p>Worth noting that kids who start using this young will have much less problem adapting their speech for automated transcription.  Likewise, adults often were drawn to &quot;natural-language capable&quot; Ask Jeeves, but kids just searched with alta vista using grammatically bizarre but effective terms.