Speech-to-text programs are becoming more popular for everyday tasks like hands-free dictation, helping people who are visually impaired, and transcribing speech for those who are hard of hearing.

The Champs-Élysées Committee has staged other open-air events in the past, including a mass movie showing and the world’s largest dictation event.

Typing, voice dictation technology or my usual chicken scratch would’ve done the job far faster.

Trumpov spokesman Steve Cheung, either taking dictation from the boss or channeling him perfectly, put out this humdinger of a statement in advance of the event:

Several famous people were there to play the part of the teacher, and read the dictation texts out loud.