I’ve run the Bruce Ster­ling’ reboot 11 clos­ing talk, through replay, that uses sphinx4 speech recog­ni­tion engine, see below what Bruce said, more or less… (I hope the lines are in order, the pro­cess was mul­ti­th­readed, I sor­ted them by thread number)

Try to sim­ul­tan­eously watch the video while try­ing to under­stand why you get funny things like:

• atem­por­al­ity = and the tim­ber rally, and a tem­per relative
• flickr’s = slickers
• eleven reboots = a lam­inar a bid its
• num­ber one, the bed = num­ber one up dead, etc.

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