Gordon dictated roughly 250 words into SimpleText and Word 2001 for us, and in both cases iListen transcribed his words almost instantly.

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His words seem to have dictated the style and substance of the 5th Plenum of the Communist Party's 14th Central Committee, which met behind closed doors in Beijing for four days last week to endorse a new Five-Year Plan.

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Android has an advantage in that, in the newest version of its operating system, it displays the dictated text almost in real time, lagging just slightly behind your spoken words.

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