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by AussieWog93 1797 days ago
>5.51 letters per minute, not words

Again, it is misleading at best to user a measure of "words per second" when you're restricted to a set of 50 of them. A keyboard that had both English and Cyrillic characters in it would have 59 unique symbols.

>It seems you are measuring performance in terms of bit-rate (i.e. based on how many symbols per minute), which makes sense when you are using a cursor-based speller.

I genuinely fail to see what the cursor has to do with anything. Communication speed is communication speed.

>This approach is not a correct measurement of bitrate with this speech-motor decoder, however, as words are being decoded based on the syllables contained within it.

Just as symbols in cursor tasks are decoded based on relative position?