Talking to a machine still feels very different from talking to a person: you're allowed to say certain things, you can't interrupt a computer.

与一台机器交谈的感觉，和与真人交流的感觉仍有明显差异：你只能说某些事情，你不能打断计算机。

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For many English sample sentences on the site, users can listen to audio dictations, which a machine generates based on collected audio files of native English speakers talking.

网站上很多英语例句用户都可以听到语音朗读，而这些语音，则是由机器以所搜集到的语音文件(英语为母语的人士说话)为基础而生成的。

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What we are talking about here is a shift from a machine-centered paradigm to a human-centered one.

我们这里讨论的是一个从以机器为中心的语法转移到以人为中心。

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Talking to a machine is nice.

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