As with Siri and iOS dictation, you need to be online for this to work: Mountain Lion captures your voice and sends the recording to the cloud for processing.

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This approach will, however, require intelligent robots which can work by themselves for years, digging and processing the desirable material.

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Never mind if nobody uses most of these new features (this article is being typed into word-processing software from 1997, for instance, but it seems to work perfectly well).

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Mine went from shipping container to functional machine in under four minutes, including fitting a loaded battery for eight-plus hours of work, initial registration, and access to an online word processing site.

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German insurance provider ERGO has built an in-house app for iPhone that thousands of agents use to process insurance claims, which has significantly reduced paper work and improved processing time and customer satisfaction.

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