Two anecdotes: First, I worked with a quadriplegic engineer who relied on speech recognition. While it wasn't perfect, he certainly did well with it. The trick

Two anecdotes: First, I worked with a quadriplegic engineer who relied on speech recognition. While it wasn't perfect, he certainly did well with it. The trick is that he trained himself as much as he did the computer. He spoke more slowly, and enunciated the places where he knew of problem points. I don't even know how much of this was conscious - I only watched a few times and never asked him. If we treat our voice recognition similarly, we get much better results. 2. Due to a few too many loud concerts and bars, I have partial hearing loss and can miss words myself. The difference between myself and a computer is that the computer is expected to output immediately rather than being allowed to wait for more context clues, and the computer isn't allowed to interrupt to ask about words. These two strategies, allowing for a more conversational flow, may be what we need to improve speech recognition.