mesiah

November 02, 2009 at 9:59pm

Speech recognition has its place, but so does the remote control. Neither is a good primary interface for a computer. In the business world it will never take off due to privacy issues. At my company all documents including personal correspondence are not to be distributed to the public. Having everyone using speech to enter documents in a busy office with phone calls going on all around them would be a privacy nightmare, let alone using a laptop in public.

There is a bigger issue that  can be seen at home or work. For intricate tasks speech is very cumbersome. Just take resizing a window, the simplest task that we perform every day. How would you do that with speech? My guess would be "Resize primary window three hundred by six hundred." Or you could click on the corner of the window with your mouse and have it resized by the time you would have gotten half way through your spoken command.

Speech recognition is great for things like setting the temperature in your house, changing the channel on tv, and dimming your lights. But for complex tasks, it will never replace keyboard and mouse.

ethanajs

November 02, 2009 at 6:47pm

lol i remember my first experiences with speech recognition. it consisted of 10 or so idiots yelling at my computer to open "programs", like...suck my ****

aziobron

November 02, 2009 at 6:21pm

i suppose that fact that speech recognition is wildly impractical anywhere other than when ur at home alone escapes them

MRrelabled

November 02, 2009 at 4:58pm

I think the picture says it all, at current I dread talking to computers.