Actually, the latest and greatest voice recognition systems are amazingly accurate after they have been adequately trained. "Adequate" training does thak hundreds of hours of use and being incredibly faithful to correcting the mistakes the software makes. Few people who can type are willing to go through this arduous process.
I think something like keyboards will, for long form writing, be around for a long time but I could see the next generation of smart phones having adequate dictation software installed for text messages and other short bits of communication that doesn't really require seriously formal writing and a few mistakes doesn't really matter. Voice recognition without training, however, is another holy grail that the serious research types need to solve. cdh On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I dunno. As long as the primary form of stored and forwarded > communication is written text, the fastest way to generate that text is > either going to be strong native speech recognition or a physical > interface that makes use of all 10 fingers, if possible. Even though > voice recognition keeps progressing it still has the same limitations of > any conversation: it breaks down in noisy environments, others can > overhear it, accents and local dialects make it hard to comprehend and > there is only one channel so it's hard for a device to always correctly > separate data from commands. For these reasons I think keyboards of some > form will be with us for a long long time. That and they are mainstream. > Any sighted user can find letters on the keyboard and peck out some text > without training. Speech recognition probably won't be mainstream for > some time because of the aforementioned flaws along with the usual > technical issues of high-overhead in software/hardware to make it work. > > CB > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >> The keyboard will become obsolete in the next 10-20 years; this is a >> prediction I'm making now. It was invented in the 19th century for >> the manual typewriter. It's going to go the way of the cathode ray >> tube; it's primitive. Blind people either adapt or they get left >> behind. I can't afford an Iphone and it frustrates me to no end >> because one of my close friends (Hi, Cara!) has shown me its use over >> Skype, and it's the most revolutionary thing I've seen come out >> since ... talking computers? :) >> >> >> Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> >> Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> My home page: >> http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
