Re:The future of loneliness
by dman on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:41PM
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For me part of what makes the interactions subpar now is that one or more parties is participating via mobile devices and input on mobile is borked. I am overly eager to be brief since typing on the mobile is so painful. This makes it difficult to have nuanced conversations.
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I think you hit the nail on the head. My two best college friends and I are all separated now but keep almost daily intellectual communication via gchat. I have to use my phone tho as I work for R&D for a big corp and chat is blocked.
It's aggravating. But then later when I can continue a conversation via keyboard the depth and intimacy is much greater.
Maybe as speech to text improves it'll get better.
I've found that Google's speech to text works surprisingly well for me, and I'm not the very best at clarity and enunciation.
I generally know what it's going to mess up in advance so I can just fix that.
Of course, this isn't very useful for an aurally communal work environment like most offices.
Can you just send speech directly in this situation, without converting to text? There are apps, that allow asynchronous speech messages.