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by 6gvONxR4sf7o 1608 days ago
Once automatic speech recognition (ASR) gets closer to bullet-proof, I expect this to become a huge thing, but right now, it seems like you're getting better error rates than typical.

Any input method where you frequently have to repeat yourself and undo things won't get mainstream. I'd bet people's mainstream tolerance for errors would have to be like one per five to ten minutes before you could get them to really adopt something like this (barring disability reasons, like RSI). Until then, the tech and market don't match.

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The problem is that bulletproof speech recognition will only be available as a cloud service and maybe only wrapped in a Siri-style "assistant" UI. You probably won't be able to use it to replace things like Dragon.