[MV] Voice Recognition Issues

[Jay A. Kreibich]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:08:39AM -0700, revDAVE scratched on the wall:
> On 2/21/2007 1:17 PM, "Jay A. Kreibich" <jay at kreibi.ch> wrote:
> 
> >   I played around with ViaVoice "back when" and was amazed at how poorly
> >   it fit my writing style.  Not accuracy, but things like "You mean I
> >   actually have to SAY 'period' and 'comma'!??"  Stuff like that slips
> >   while typing without conscious thought.  Like Regina, I too "hear
> >   voices" in my head while I write, but those voices don't SAY "comma"--
> >   the sub-conscious part of my brain that takes a thought and "outputs
> >   typing" just understands where to insert all the non-spoken parts of
> >   the written language as the thoughts I'm trying to express stream
> >   through my head.
> 
> In a case like this: what about a hybrid approach? Sometimes I will speak
> part of the text - and also keep my hands on the keyboard for things like -
> 'period' and 'comma' and new paragraph etc...

  I my case it doesn't matter.  I have no limitations using a keyboard
  and can type more or less the same rate that I can speak. 
  
  The voice thing looked interesting, I tried it out, I said "never mind."
  
  Keyboards make it fast and easy to do on-the-fly corrections, and work
  in every mode in every application.  At the moment, they just can't be
  beat.
  
  And in some sense, that's pretty sad.  If find it a bit ironic that
  in 60+ years of computing history, nearly everything has changed
  except the main input device... most computer interaction is still
  channeled through some 100+ basic on/off switches that we bang against,
  trying to express our thoughts and desires unto the electronic realm.

   -j

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Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y  @  K R E I B I.C H >

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