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Assuming it works perfectly, speech still couldn't possibly be the main way to use a computer: - hearing people next to you speaking to the computer would be t
by jraph 2y ago
Assuming it works perfectly, speech still couldn't possibly be the main way to use a computer:
- hearing people next to you speaking to the computer would be tiring and annoying. Though remote work might be a partial solution to this
- hello voice extinction after days of using a computer :-)
- acuozzo 2y agoSame here, but I'm hoping it takes off for other people. I get requests all the time from colleagues to have discussions via telephone instead of chat because they are bad at typing.
- rsynnott 2y agoOh, yeah, I mean, it would've been awful had it actually happened, even if it worked properly. But try telling that to Microsoft's marketing department circa 1998. (MS had a bit of a fetish for alternate interfaces at the time; before voice they spent a few years desperately trying to make Windows for Pen Computing a thing).