To their credit, both programs recognize continuous speech--that is, you can speak at a normal pace rather than pausing distinctly between words--and both are blessed with large vocabularies of over 20, 000 words.

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Its remorselessly shrill tone, alternating between the shocking and the motivational (not a word Mr Peters likes but accurate, nonetheless), could easily cause a normal brain to explode after half an hour's continuous exposure.

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Channel Seven, the Olympics broadcaster, will drop all its normal programming for the 16 days of competition and switch to continuous coverage of the games.

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