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Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by jonathanstrange on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:28AM (#33544114)
If voice dictation was a killer feature, everybody would use it all the time for ordinary texts. But for some reason only few (lawyers? doctors?) use it.
Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code by luckylion on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:38AM (#33544217)
I believe that's mostly because it doesn't work reliably. Doctors, lawyers, architects etc have a somewhat limited professional vocabulary and often say the same things, so voice recognition works pretty well for them. But when you write a random message, you have a much broader range of topics, and dictation that fails quickly makes the whole thing change from an improvement to an ordeal. "No, not 'or deal'. delete word. delete word. delete word. O-R-D-E-A-L. Yes, that's it. No, don't write that, sigh".