Just a couple weeks after the Authors Guild's overzealous copyright-maximalist stance forced the bookseller to modify the Kindle 2's text to speech feature, the company's lawyers have had a fit of irony and sent out a DMCA takedown request to MobileRead, claiming that the site's links to a Python script that enables Kindle owners to shop at Mobipocket-format ebook sites constitutes circumvention of the Kindle's DRM.

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Le Web will even feature a speech from McKinsey partner Eric Hazan on how "faster than realtime" is shifting the behavior of consumption across the internet.

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Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.

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But several cabinet ministers, including Theresa May, Michael Gove and Andrew Lansley, are said to be against the plan, meaning it is now unlikely to feature in the Queen's Speech.

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They'll include iMessages, the texting feature already available on mobile devices, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.

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Radio 4 took four titles - the Speech Award, Short Form Award, the Drama Award and Feature Award.

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But the audio feature is far from perfect: Amazon's text-to-speech software mispronounces most obscure words and doesn't have much of an ear for dialogue.

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" In her victory speech she vowed to fight for gun control until "gun violence is no longer a nightly feature on the evening news.

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Jelly Bean's smarter keyword feature makes text messaging faster by predicting the next word in a sentence, and improved speech-to-text technology and voice technology continues to work even if a data connection is interrupted.

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