[Supermancho]

> It simply isn't a great input method

Loud is relative, privacy is an aimless indictment that's orthogonal, and for brevity?

Speech is a fantastic tool for communication, which includes input and output. It's part of why most large animals, for which quick communication is imperative, use it. It's imprecise, which is the problem that machines are not good at dealing with. It's was a good direction, when we used to have machines that were initially trained with speech for better accuracy, but now passive listening of devices isn't even used for that!

> The real game changer for input is along the lines of what the neural lace is supposed to be. Cognitive input. Silent, fast, efficient.

Silent sure. The human mind is rather random, highly variable between individuals and ages. I would not call it fast or efficient. Then again, speech to text is contextual cognitive input. Without drugs or intentional damage (minor) to the brain, I don't expect neural implants to be very effective, even in the next 100 years.