Re:Voice Recognition Software Beats Humans at Typing
by morinted on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:09AM
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I'm really splitting hairs here, you have valid points but…I use a steno machine to write code all day. I know, I'm probably the only one. But steno was forever locked up in proprietary industry until only very, very recently when Plover came to be. There are more and more people learning it every day. I'm hopeful that it will be comparable to the number of people using Dragon and the like. Sure, it won't replace the QWERTY keyboard, but at least people won't say "a what?" when I tell them I write on a steno machine.
Re:Voice Recognition Software Beats Humans at Typing
by melling on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:26AM
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The chorded keyboard idea is definitely interesting but voice recognition is what most people will use.
People don't always want to simply type fast. Imagine other use case cases, like designers, for example. They might be using a Wacom tablet and need to reach for the keyboard to "create a new layer", "change font to San Francisco", "50x100 rectangle", etc. Wouldn't voice recognition be much easier?
Here's an interesting study on chorded keyboards:
Re:Voice Recognition Software Beats Humans at Typing
by morinted on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:02PM
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Thanks for that. Yes, speech control seems really natural for certain tasks, like a painting program especially where you use few and distinct words. The VR painting programs come to mind.
That case study interests me, but it really glazes over stenotype and palantype. I'll email Bill and see if I can get a discussion going. Cheers
How many people know steno? No one you know, but hey that's how we chew the fat on the Internet. How many of the 7 billion people can type?
People already effectively use dictation. John Siracusa used Dragon to write his 20,000 word Mac OS reviews:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/23/
David Pogue has been using dictation for years:
https://youtu.be/x0GXX-SJuQM
Software developers have even cobbled together voice programming solutions:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
https://www.extrahop.com/community/blog/2014/programming-by-...
http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/wrist.php - Creator of Tcl/Tk has had RSI for a couple decades.
Also, let me throw out my standard response: "No one said..." that you have to use a keyboard or voice dictation, you have the option of using both solutions.