It's not dead. It is in fact used a lot more than ten years ago. I've yet to get a voice message that google voice was not able to decode sufficiently, and most

It's not dead. It is in fact used a lot more than ten years ago. I've yet to get a voice message that google voice was not able to decode sufficiently, and most of the transcribed messages have been 100% accurate. General speech recognition has a long way to go, but it will happen last in speech recognition. Meanwhile, in the real world, speech recognition is noticeably better for everyday use than it was a decade ago.