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If you work at home, why are you typing into things like Slack? I dictate all my comms, and it's way faster than typing. I use Google's speech input.
by jeffbee 3y ago
If you work at home, why are you typing into things like Slack? I dictate all my comms, and it's way faster than typing. I use Google's speech input.
- WD40forRust 3y ago[dead]
- cthalupa 3y agoI don't really agree with the premise of the article, but my sustained typing throughput sits around 140wpm, and for 10s bursts can hit 170+. This is WAY faster than I can talk. But I don't think this typing speed provides me the advantages the article professes - as others have noted, I am much more gated by the time I spend thinking before typing than I am the typing process itself. Dropping to 80wpm is going to influence the amount of garbage I throw out arguing with people on the internet far more than it would doing anything actually productive. To the point of having to pause thought while typing, I don't find this to be particularly true. I'll still be thinking of how exactly I want to word something as I'm typing it, and will make minor adjustments on the fly.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoHmm, it's easier for me to type than to talk I think. Talking requires more focus.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoyes, same. And the more time passes, the more this skews. My thoughts flow naturally into words when I'm typing, but if I have to speak them I forget what words I want to use very easily, and sometimes I'll have to pause for several seconds to recall what I want to say. It almost feels like spoken English isn't my native language anymore, and typing is.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoYeah, honestly to describe talking, it's as if I'm just throwing out things out there cluelessly, hoping all of what I've said makes sense, while when I'm typing everything just comes out according to my natural thought track.
- LoganDark 3y agoI find that my typing is much better because I can constantly re-parse the sentence as I am writing it. With speech, I have to memorize what I've said instead, and that causes a lot more screwups.
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- footy 3y agoI can't talk and listen to music at the same time
- callalex 3y agoI have a tendency to stumble over my words or forget what I was saying mid-sentence (yay ADHD). Once you have to move the cursor backwards, typing will always be faster than speaking.
- jon-wood 3y agoThe biggest issue I have with dictation currently is that as I'm speaking it'll type out what it thinks I'm saying and then revise that what I actually said as it goes. This results in me getting distracted reading the words appearing on screen and losing my train of thought.