[estearum]

These are all interrelated points and the sibling comment is correct: it's a skill.

The key thing with these voice systems is that you do not need to edit anything. You can literally just stream of consciousness into them, no editing, include the backtracking, the live-revisions, etc., and it will actually all produce vastly better context for the LLM than the written thing you took even 30 seconds to edit for clarity or brevity.

I had a very similar disposition towards this idea just 6 months ago. I highly recommend trying it out. The key thing is that you do not need to edit. Just keep talking. Try it for a few weeks!

[charcircuit]

You don't need to edit anything when you are typing either. You don't even need to worry about spelling or typos.

[estearum]

Seems much harder to learn how to write how you never write, versus just learning to speak to a computer the same way you speak to anything else.

[charcircuit]

What do you mean how you never write? You can just write what for want to say instead of saying it out loud. It is not a special skill, it's no different than how you write a message, just that you don't hit backspace to go back and correct things.

[estearum]

Correct, it's no different from how you normally write, except for the ways in which it is. We agree.

[Dylan16807]

When you're making a big deal out of it being "much harder" because it's "how you never write" and they're saying that's just "not hitting backspace"? No, you don't agree.

[estearum]

How frequently do you write in a stream of consciousness and not hit backspace?

Maybe give a ballpark estimate of characters typed per week in this manner versus characters typed where you are doing some combination of: 1) thinking about what you're writing before you write it, 2) punctuating and formatting correctly, or 3) correcting your writing output?

Ridiculous proposition. And I type correctly at 110+ wpm.

[esseph]

A lot of people on the autism spectrum can have issues with speaking or speaking speed, but have no such barrier necessarily to typing speed.

I'd imagine there's a statistically large number of people that meet that criteria on this website.

[estearum]

I mean we don't need to do any epidemiological studies here or anything.

If someone hasn't tried it, they should. It's probably quite different from how they're expecting, might be great, and costs basically nothing. Try it for a few days and if it doesn't work in your workflow, obviously don't do it.

But I have encountered many many people who raised these exact same arguments against trying it, then tried it, and were hooked within days. Exactly 0% of people I've ever convinced to try it decided it just wasn't for them and went back to typing full-time.

[esseph]

The thought of talking drives me insane but you do you, boo-boo :)