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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by eimrine on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:05PM (#33099037)
> define text

Text interface is any non-GUI?

Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by mostlylurks on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:25PM (#33099325)
There are many more types of interfaces than GUIs and text-based interfaces. Voice user interfaces (VUIs), for instance, which have become commonplace in recent years, especially with virtual assistants like Alexa or Siri.
Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by jrm4 on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:30PM (#33099410)
VUI's are just text interfaces with a different input system and more error checking. They implement operations that give you convenience in exchange for versatility.
Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by mostlylurks on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @03:09PM (#33099965)
Even if the two types of interfaces share strong similarities in their most commonplace usage, they are nevertheless accessed through two distinct mediums (from which they get their names (TUI / VUI)). Text is not speech, and speech is not text, and the possibility space of what can be realistically (in a human-friendly manner) provided as input or output on each is quite different. On VUIs, for instance, you can do things like query for a song by humming it [0], which would be very difficult to provide a purely textual alternative for for use in a TUI, whereas text-based interfaces make it easier to do things like looking at large swathes of structured content or copypasting a long piece of text to use as input.

[0]: https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search/

Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by f1shy on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:17PM (#33099212)
Where is the line between GUI and TUI? Or TUI and CLI?

Also, where does a system like Genera fits? Was it CLI, TUI or GUI?!

Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by falcolas on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:09PM (#33099098)
GUIs can have representations of text, and text input fields though...