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"Beats humans at typing" is a super misleading title. I'm a hobbyist stenographer and I'm always interested in advances in voice recognition. But this is just a
by morinted 10y ago
"Beats humans at typing" is a super misleading title. I'm a hobbyist stenographer and I'm always interested in advances in voice recognition. But this is just a little test without much merit, in my opinion.
A couple points:
- "Typing" isn't what I'd call whatever people do while tapping away at a touchscreen keyboard. There are different actions, including swiping and tapping, but without hardware, "typing" is misleading.
- Human typing speed is variable. Many people type below 50 words per minute, but others break the 100 words per minute barrier (or more in the case of prodigies like Sean Wrona).
- To ever use this for captioning or court reporting, we'd have to overcome stenography, which is exceeding 200 words per minute. We're on a totally different level now.
If anyone wants to learn about stenography or try it out on their own keyboard for fun, check out our open source efforts at http://opensteno.org http://opensteno.org