Tag: technology
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I’ve just discovered audiobooks and now I’m a complete convert
Audiobooks are changing the way I, and many other book lovers, consume fiction. They’ve also made me rethink the way I write my own stories. It’s five weeks now since I listened to my first audiobook. That doesn’t exactly qualify me as an early adopter. But I’ve more than made up for this late start…
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Artificial Intelligence isn’t taking our jobs, it’s deciding who gets them.
Robots aren’t interested in taking our jobs after all. They’ve skipped that basic rung of the career ladder and have gone straight into management and consultancy instead. Artificial Intelligence, the Guardian reports, is now being used to decide which of us is going to fill that job vacancy. A.I. is taking over the world of…
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Using Google Docs and Google Drive to stay productive when you’re away from your desk.
A recent change in work routine means that I’m away from my laptop for much of each day. This has forced me to look for new ways of staying productive during those many small moments when I could be writing. Last week, I wrote about an experiment with speech-to-text dictation using Google Docs on my…
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Is dictating the new writing? Can speech-to-text engines help you talk your way to a novel?
Thanks to speech-to-text engines it’s now possible for anyone with a smartphone to become one of the great dictators. Not the testosterone-fuelled – my rocket is bigger than your rocket – kind of dictator. I’m talking here about writers who use dictation to speak their way to a story. Dictation was once the preserve of writers…