If we imagine that technology can take the place of the living human presence experienced through oral tradition, then we diminish ourselves and forget the true power of stories.
假如我们认为科技可以取代人们体会过的真实故事，我们就是自我毁灭且遗忘故事真正的力量。
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Text-to-speech technology converts the resulting text file into an oral response in the foreign language.
文本-语言转换技术能够把相应的文本文件转换成相应的外语并以语音的形式输出出来。
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This is not to say that technology and the oral tradition are separated by a deep divide.