[websap]

You should look into how often people are using tools like WisprFlow and SuperWhisper. Voice is a very native mechanism. Most people working in open floor plans are wearing headphones any way. As long as you're not screaming, it's probably fine. Maybe, we'll move away from open plan offices in the bid for efficiency, which I would welcome.

[shostack]

I am moving full remote because dictation is such a better input mechanism for most of my AI interactions that I have become less efficient sitting in my open floorplan desk at the office because I cannot dictate there and the latency adds up. Typing is just achingly slow these days.

[Melatonic]

I feel like I can type faster than I can talk but I could be totally wrong?

[el_benhameen]

I also feel this way, but more importantly, I feel like my sentences are more coherent when typed because typing allows for corrections and modifications of ideas. Do whispr people just … get coherent, finalized ideas out in a single shot without any misspoken words?

[gtowey]

They are not.

It's like a hidden curse of LLMs -- they're so good at parsing intended meaning from non-grammatically-correct language that we don't have to be very good at clear communication.

Eventually all LLMs will be controlled by humans uttering terse gutteral grunts. We will all become neanderthals, with machines that deliver our every whim.

[jiehong]

transcription gets post-processed by a LLM (with different styles, like based on prompts, so that it removes fillers, homophones, change the style, etc.

I recommend the youtube channel @afadingthought to see what people come up with (like v=283-z29TXeM).

[jchw]

You should look into how often people are using rectangles with buttons on them. They may be a bit archaic, but they are my preferred input method. For example, thanks to rectangles with buttons, the other people in my vicinity do not need to hear about the inane internet arguments I routinely involve myself in.

I dunno how I can express this best, but I found out a very long time ago that my problem with voice input wasn't that it wasn't good enough. My problem with voice input is that I don't want it. I am very happy for people who use these tools that they exist. I will not be them. Yes I am sure.

And yes, I know SuperWhisper can run offline, but it is a notable benefit that versus many modern speech recognition tools my keyboard does not require an always-active Internet connection, a subscription payment, or several teraflops of compute power.

I am not a flat-out luddite. I do use LLMs in some capacity, for whatever it is worth. Ethical issues or not, they are useful and probably here to stay. But my God, there are so many ways in which I am very happy to be "left behind".

[shimman]

I'm sorry but if you think the amount of workers using voice controls in the office to be more than 1% you are in a massive bubble my dude.

[DonHopkins]

Sorry to Bother You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthLQZWIshQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You

[shimman]

Don't know if you're making a joke, but call center workers using a phone is not the same thing as a call center worker doing all their work on a phone. Worked in a call center for 4 years, one thing everyone needed after their shift was to just STFU for a few hours to decompress.