<p dir="ltr">On Mar 6, 2014 7:49 AM, "William Flynn Wallace" <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Tangent re hard science: just when are we going to stop typing? What primitive technology, esp. the keyboard (no, Dvorak didn't catch on did it)! Surely voice recognition programs are up to speed in many areas</p>
<p dir="ltr">Actually they are not. Accuracy, and thus speed of input after reviewing and correcting errors, is lower. This is especially true when using them to input things other than natural language (Control-X/C/V, Excel macros or more involved programming, game/simulator/drone commands, et cetera).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Plus, using them is inherently much louder than with keyboards, which is impractical enough in most situations where keyboards are used to remove voice input from serious consideration. And then there are the many cases where the keyboard is used to interact with a computer while voice is used to interact with another human, such as most customer service, where dual-loading of voice is even less practical.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want to move past keyboards, find another channel not already being used. Direct neural input is one possibility, but that is waiting on it getting cheaper, more sensitive, more accurate, and easier to (learn how to competently) control.</p>