My Stepbrother's Dirty Little Secret novel Chapter 46

My fingers rested on the keyboard but nothing moved.

Writing always felt like pushing through mud.

I reached into my bag and grabbed my phone. I had to use my tricks, they weren't perfect but they worked.

I took a picture of the folder and used an app to turn the image into text. Then I put my earbuds in. A flat, robotic voice started reading the words to me. It was slow and boring, but it helped my brain see the sentences without them scrambling.

The phone read the text out loud through my earbuds. The voice was flat and robotic, but it slowed the sentences down just enough for my brain to catch them.

“…prediction model begins at search behavior index…”

“…regional interest spike precedes shipment demand…”

I listened once.

Then again, while the voice played, I whispered into my phone, using the voice-to-text.

“Change that... start with consumer data... no... wait... delete that word.”

The speech-to-text system typed the corrections onto the screen but faster than trying to build every sentence from scratch.

I copied the text into the document on the screen, then I listened again. Sometimes the words still tangled. Sometimes the software heard the wrong thing and replaced it with something strange.

I fixed the ones I noticed, some of them might have slipped past me.

The report slowly grew into two pages.

A short explanation at the top. A chart in the middle. A few bullet points under it explaining what the model predicted.

I read it one more time through the audio playback.

“…This model demonstrates earlier demand detection and improve shipment planning accuracy…”

Improve.

Not improves.

I frowned.

Something about that line felt off, but the meaning still made sense.

I left it.

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