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Can you talk faster than you can type? For most of us the answer would be yes. This infographic looks at how dictation tools may speed up your work and the amount of time you would save if you switched to voice recognition software (and the figures are pretty amazing. One tool they do not mention is TalkTyper which is available for free, but requires that you use Chrome as your browser. You can check TalkTyper out at http://talktyper.com/.

Via Beth Dichter

While still very early in its evolution and application, Siri is collecting a monster database of human behavior. Siri goes beyond “need” to “intent” – not what somebody wants, but why.

Call it technographic, call it behavioral or call it semantic – whatever the term, Apple, not Google or Microsoft, may be ushering in the era of Web 3.0 and language-based search (and with it, capturing the ad dollars that will surely follow.)

Via Pierre Tran