'State Of The Union Machine' Patches Together Speeches Of Presidents Past The "State of the Union Machine" randomly generates text based on different presidents' actual speeches. Their words and phrases can be patched together to create a multi-administration text.

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'State Of The Union Machine' Patches Together Speeches Of Presidents Past

January 20, 20154:26 PM ET

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'State Of The Union Machine' Patches Together Speeches Of Presidents Past

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The State of the Union Machine is an online tool that randomly generates text based on different presidents' actual speeches. Nine presidents' words and phrases can be patched together to create a multi-administration text