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> Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital? For the sake of, err, discussion, I can envision some sort of wearable

> Is there a theoretically faster way to get words from your hands to something digital? For the sake of, err, discussion, I can envision some sort of wearable glove like input device. I know I can play notes on a guitar far faster than he is inputting characters because of the technique involved. I feel like it could be possible to come up with a faster method playing around with that idea. But the ultimate would be hands free, no? Makes one wonder if this is yet another skill/job about to be blown away by automation. Offline speech recognition with perfect accuracy will probably come standard with every phone in a couple of years.

tyingq 6y ago
Speech to text is interesting, though the 360 words / minute is already quite a lot faster than typical speech. Though probably slower than the text to speech blind users use (450 words/minute?). I wonder if there's a blind stenographer that can really fly, but just isn't well known. I bet there are some unknown talents in the closed captioning space. Unrelated, I've seen some interesting typos there, especially with strong English accents like Scottish or Irish. And you can see them improving as episodes progress. The "RedRock" Irish soap is a good example. They get much better over time.
lunixbochs 6y ago
_humans_ are in the 5% word error rate ballpark for large vocabulary recognition. I think generalized perfect accuracy is very very far away unfortunately.
Izkata 6y ago
> I can envision some sort of wearable glove like input device. I know I can play notes on a guitar far faster than he is inputting characters because of the technique involved. Sounds like the perfect instrument for Steno Hero: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/steno-hero-might-make-transcription-tolerable/ https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/steno-hero-might-...
tanatocenose 6y ago
I find it hard to believe the average guitarplayer can play notes faster than the average typist can write letters.
pessimizer 6y ago
As for hands-free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask Half the speed.

tyingq 6y ago

Speech to text is interesting, though the 360 words / minute is already quite a lot faster than typical speech. Though probably slower than the text to speech blind users use (450 words/minute?). I wonder if there's a blind stenographer that can really fly, but just isn't well known. I bet there are some unknown talents in the closed captioning space. Unrelated, I've seen some interesting typos there, especially with strong English accents like Scottish or Irish. And you can see them improving as episodes progress. The "RedRock" Irish soap is a good example. They get much better over time.

lunixbochs 6y ago

_humans_ are in the 5% word error rate ballpark for large vocabulary recognition. I think generalized perfect accuracy is very very far away unfortunately.

Izkata 6y ago

> I can envision some sort of wearable glove like input device. I know I can play notes on a guitar far faster than he is inputting characters because of the technique involved. Sounds like the perfect instrument for Steno Hero: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/steno-hero-might-make-transcription-tolerable/ https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/steno-hero-might-...

tanatocenose 6y ago

I find it hard to believe the average guitarplayer can play notes faster than the average typist can write letters.

pessimizer 6y ago

As for hands-free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask Half the speed.