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Don't think that will work for me; when I try voice recognition it gets so many words wrong that you can't even guess what the original input was. I don't have

Don't think that will work for me; when I try voice recognition it gets so many words wrong that you can't even guess what the original input was. I don't have a speech impediment but voice recognition neural nets sure think I do. Also I type faster than most people speak when they are not trying hard to speak as fast as possible. I bet that's the case for many people here.

pnutjam 10y ago
At least when your typing, you get a word wrong and immediately fix it. With Voice Recognition, you have to parse back through the whole message and pick out the corrections one at a time, many corrections if it has a 20.4% error rate. Humans don't do well with that, they look at something and their brain fills it in correctly for them, it's easy to miss typos in your own work. When I used to do helpdesk and someone had password problems I'd have them retype their usernames, because they would not notice it was wrong, but it was often the problem.
- taeric 10y ago
  Actually, you are a better typer, generally, if you do not correct mistakes as you make them. Reasons being: a) the computer can often just fix it for you and b) you shouldn't be looking at where you are typing if you really want speed.
  - pnutjam 10y ago
    Most of my typing is technical commands and jargon.
scholia 10y ago
Dictating for voice recognition is a skill you can learn, just like typing. More than a decade ago, I saw voice dictation working 100% perfectly. The guy who did that was being paid to do the demo by the software company that wrote the voice recognition program, and he had obviously spent a lot of hours doing demos. He wasn't faking anything, he was just doing it really well. Other people who have an incentive to learn it can usually do it pretty well too. They are mostly people who are using their hands for something else, eg doing autopsies, or who don't have hands.

pnutjam 10y ago

At least when your typing, you get a word wrong and immediately fix it. With Voice Recognition, you have to parse back through the whole message and pick out the corrections one at a time, many corrections if it has a 20.4% error rate. Humans don't do well with that, they look at something and their brain fills it in correctly for them, it's easy to miss typos in your own work. When I used to do helpdesk and someone had password problems I'd have them retype their usernames, because they would not notice it was wrong, but it was often the problem.

taeric 10y ago
Actually, you are a better typer, generally, if you do not correct mistakes as you make them. Reasons being: a) the computer can often just fix it for you and b) you shouldn't be looking at where you are typing if you really want speed.
- pnutjam 10y ago
  Most of my typing is technical commands and jargon.

scholia 10y ago

Dictating for voice recognition is a skill you can learn, just like typing. More than a decade ago, I saw voice dictation working 100% perfectly. The guy who did that was being paid to do the demo by the software company that wrote the voice recognition program, and he had obviously spent a lot of hours doing demos. He wasn't faking anything, he was just doing it really well. Other people who have an incentive to learn it can usually do it pretty well too. They are mostly people who are using their hands for something else, eg doing autopsies, or who don't have hands.