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by mertd 1608 days ago
People do much more than narrating natural language. They navigate menus, highlight text, launch apps, type commands on the terminal etc... I don't see how voice can best keyboard and mouse when considering all interactions.
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Strange, I can see it with no problems. Probably because I use VIM quite a bit, which makes use of fairly natural language gestures.

Copy two words

Select line

Paste before word

etc.

Opening apps is ever simpler: "open spotify". Compare the complexity and time required to say those two words against moving your hand to the mouse, moving the mouse to a 100x100 pixel target, and clicking twice within 100ms. Even compare it against using "Cmd-Space Spotify".

It'd require a learning period, but so does - for example - teaching the concept of the mouse to someone who's only ever used a tablet.

EDIT: And I'll copy this from another of my posts - getting good voice control won't take our keyboards and mice away from us.