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> Astonishingly, the machine managed to correctly parse my speech. (I
> didn't think about this at the time, but the voice is recorded rather
> than synthesized, so they must have recordings for the exact words I
> uttered.)

I work for a very large IT company that does research on language 
recognition, amongst other things.  We were all asked a few years ago to 
spend 15 minutes reciting a long list of words into a voice-mail box. 
This was then used to help their software filter out dialects, accents, 
barytones from sopranos, etc...

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