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Based on what they show on the video alone, I feel this study is unfair. They are comparing "one of the best commercial speech recognizers out there" and in abs
by jbombadil 10y ago
Based on what they show on the video alone, I feel this study is unfair. They are comparing "one of the best commercial speech recognizers out there" and in absolutely ideal conditions (no external noise, no echo etc.) against a normal on screen keyboard with no prediction enabled. I'm no pro and I can type much faster than that with SwiftKey.
I'm not saying the study doesn't have merit, but "Speech _Is_ 3x Faster than Typing for English and Mandarin Text Entry on Mobile Devices" sounds a bit of a stretch.
- treehau5 10y agoAgreed. I type 3-4x faster than most using Swype on Samsung phones. I have become so used to it I can also type without looking at the screen in most cases.
- lqdc13 10y agoTo provide a counterexample, I definitely type less than 50 (their median) wpm on a mobile device. More like 10 - especially if there are symbols involved that are not on the first two screens. On blackberry maybe 50. On the other hand, speech is a lot worse. A lot of times you can't afford to have 10%, 5% or even 1% error rate since messages are usually short and you cannot infer intended meaning easily. So my WPM accounting for correcting speech with swype is <10.
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