"You cannot just regulate code without going thru the first amendment type of balancing tests that are used for any other type of speech, because code is speech, " says Cohn.

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While the newspaper mockery is not of a genuine speech impediment, for some there's a sense that it might encourage that type of behaviour.

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It also represented a broader goal of Nuance as a speech recognition company: creating personal dictionaries that better understand what we say and type to a machine, be it a smartphone, car or laptop.

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So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago, suffered a stroke that wiped out his speech.

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