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Again, same trap. Talking all day is NOT appealing, and doesn't work in a public setting. Works great for mobile phones precisely because often we have our phon
by makmanalp 10y ago
Again, same trap. Talking all day is NOT appealing, and doesn't work in a public setting. Works great for mobile phones precisely because often we have our phones out but can't type, like in a car or walking with my hands full.
- ghaff 10y agoThe other issue with speech to text is discoverability both for commands and the object of the command. This presumably becomes less of an issue as natural language processing gets better. Voice recognition is pretty good with the right microphones today but using it is something like remembering the right wizard's incantation. Think a command line :-) That's fine if it's a variation on some frequently used command but I find myself forgetting the triggers and skills I have set on Amazon or the names of playlists I might want it to play.
- makmanalp 10y agoThis is actually a great point - I think this is a one-way vs two-way communication issue. With a lot of our current input devices, tactile feedback helps with verifying that the individual "packets" of information are registering, but visual feedback is key for knowing that the high-level command worked / didn't work, and what other options are discoverable. And the fact that the visual feedback is extremely high bandwidth is key. Imagine being read everything on the screen. Come to think of it, screenreaders are hard.