Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it was announced that President Jiang Zemin would speak at Harvard, I found myself facing a peculiar, foreign impulse: I had the vague beginnings of what one might call "the urge to protest." At first the idea struck me as so misplaced that I nearly laughed it off. But as I followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew...
...audience quickly settled into its seats--on the floor or the benches--an hour after they had originally arrived to hear the magnates speak...
Science fiction, on the other hand, shows us a future where keyboards are a quaint memory. Watch any episode of Babylon 5 or Star Trek--the characters don't have Microsoft Natural Keyboards on their desks. Instead, they simply speak to their computers, which recognize their speech and act upon...
...latest products to hit the market from IBM, Dragon Systems and Kurzweil all support continuous voice recognition, which means you can speak into the computer without pausing at a normal rate. You can't talk as fast as the guy from the Micro Machines commercial, of course, but a conversational pace is fine...
...there is one problem with using dictation instead of a keyboard, it's the effect it may have on your writing style. I tried writing a paper for a seminar with the program, only to find that my diction and phraseology when I speak is apparently nothing like my style of writing...