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Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by russelldc on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:27PM (#12401220)
I understand feeling weird speaking to your phone in public but I'm not sure I follow "hold the phone in an unnatural way". When I use speech recognition, I don't move my phone from the usual position.
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Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by Sylos on Thursday September 01, 2016 @07:05AM (#12404312)
He means holding it closer to your mouth, so you don't have to talk as loud.
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Re:Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin ... by ccozan on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:38AM (#12404771)
I have a Moto X 2016 and it has a cool feature: simply lift the phone to the ear, as you would talk, and it starts the mic+recognition.

Then I just talk my question as I would have a conversation with a human and I get the answer spoken into the earpiece. Of course, sometimes I need to look up the info on the screen, since it doesn't answer straight.

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