Time Written with Voice, Song Connecting Eternity

My blog site includes a feature to write posts with voice. I am currently inputting voice using my phone for this post as well. In that way, AI automatically analyzes my recording, inputs it as text, corrects the spelling, and even automatically assigns a title and completes the posting.

Actually, this feature was implemented in a business site I created before developing this blog site, to easily write daily work logs with voice. Combining then and now, it was built with a considerable amount of time and effort. The reason I bothered to include such a feature, even with the effort, was honestly because I initially wanted to write posts easily. However, as I wrote daily work logs using the recording feature, my thinking changed a bit.

Now, we can use such good technology to write, read, create videos, watch videos, and easily share digital information anytime, anywhere. But what was it like in the old days, thousands of years ago, when it was difficult to even find a single piece of paper? What was it like in the days when there was no writing? For most of the time humans have been on Earth, they have conveyed their thoughts and feelings orally, through speech, and with their voices. When an adult spoke, children listened and learned, and when that child became an adult, they taught their own children again, and so on, through their descendants, their descendants, their descendants... Since I started writing with recording, I have been able to think of our ancestors from the old days.

It is said that when Buddha delivered his first words to his first disciples under the Bodhi tree, the first disciples were animals. Buddha did not care whether his disciples were animals or humans and would have spoken in human language. What that word was has been passed down in writing to this day, but I don't think it's real. After that, countless disciples updated, added their own thoughts, and revised, and many people corrected and corrected again, organizing very good content and passing it down to this day. I am curious about Buddha's first words.

Whatever the case, the important thing is that people, both in the past and now, convey their thoughts and feelings to others through language. As technology has developed too much, I think there is too much time spent talking alone and writing alone. Even AI converts text to speech, so I wonder if the act of using one's own blood, muscles, and nerves to send sound outwards is gradually decreasing. Writing with your own voice, I find it very attractive. It means being able to convey my thoughts and feelings in my own voice, just like my ancestors did.