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Better speech-recognition technology
Jul 12th 2010
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What's the use of voice recognition software if I still need to use my fingers to correct wrongly chosen words? I bet it would be faster if I typed the words myself!
This capability is already included in all of the speech recognition software that I know of, and has been around for decades.
If you can speak neatly, this software saves you a lot of time as corrections are relatively few.
Secretaries are not slaves: this software is just for them, obviously not for top managers, who always have who makes grunt work for them!
This only makes sense in the 1990-to-2010 paradigm that has businessmen for some reason doing all their own typing.
Far simpler and quicker than a speech-recognition interface would be a person, trained to either touch-type or write shorthand while you spoke. We could call them "secretaries".
This is actually very similar to the way that Japanese language text is entered on a standard keyboard. Because homophones are so common, as the user enters a phonetic representation of a sentence, the input method software guesses the appropriate Kanji (Chinese character) representation. If the user rejects the proffered representation, the software displays its less-favored guesses.
Speech recognition is the technology of the future... in the future somebody will make money with this stuff... you can go back 10, 20 years and find a similar "we almost fix this thing" article.