[eddigo]

I've been working with speech systems on and off since 1998. They're all pretty bad in my opinion. They're not even almost there yet.

I remember studies from years back that speech is far lower throughput than typing for nearly every language except Chinese.

I hate talking, especially to a computer, when I have a typing interface. Speech is such a serial, synchronous information channel. That fact paired with how context-limited speech systems are makes for a very poor experience. It's really going to take an inventive design to get people to use speech regularly for machine interaction. We're just not there yet.