"Take Notes For Me." Sounds pretty good, right? This feature just started rolling out to Google Workspace customers.
This new feature reminds me of an idea that is at least ninety years old - the vibrowriter from The Lost Language (1934), by David H. Keller.
There was a man there, Henry Jordan, who had gained international renown by his work with vibrations. He was the inventor of the vibrowriter, the new typewriter that could be talked to, and which transposed the spoken sound into typed words, a contrivance which made perfect spelling possible, provided the words were perfectly pronounced.
You may wish to compare this idea to the
telescribe from A Question of Salvage (1939) by Malcom Jameson, the
speakwrite from 1984 (1948) by George Orwell, the
transcriber from Second Foundation (1953) by Isaac Asimov and the
electrosecretary from A Fall of Moondust (1961) by Arthur C. Clarke.
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AI Note-Taking From Google Meet
'... the new typewriter that could be talked to, and which transposed the spoken sound into typed words.' - Dr. David H. Keller, 1934.
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