Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software technology deserves our careful attention and considered debate, if only because it enhances our human capacity to produce writing beyond the point of familiar recognition, that is, to the point where the familiar act of writing appears strange and wondrous. For the first time in our history, at the juncture of homo sapiens and homo superior, words from our mouths produce writing that challenges the idea of speech as ephemeral activity, shifts the site of composition from hand to mouth, and increases the efficiency with which we produce written text.