Using initials and abbreviations and understanding phonetics and rhymes are part of texting - but they are also part of successful reading and spelling development, they say.
However, English is particularly tricky for speech recognition, because it has so many short words, some real homonyms, others that become homonymous when uttered by non natives (like me) whose command of phonetics is so-so.
Mr. BAILEY: What we do here at the Jockey Club is we have an approval process whereby the owners of the Thoroughbreds will submit the names to us, and we enter those names into a computer system and run them through a check of the phonetics of the name.