[crazygringo]

Where is it backed up that it's faster than the keyboard?

For the couple of minutes I watched of him demoing it... I type waaaay faster than that. In fact, I can't possibly imagine how I could speak faster than I can code on the keyboard.

(Regular English sentences are another story, but code is full of important punctuation, exact cursor positioning, single characters, etc...)

I mean, this is awesome for people with trouble typing (which was my own case a few months back), but I don't think it needs to be over-sold by being "better"...

[cbhl]

I think this is a silly point of contention. If I recall correctly, it's established that for English-language prose, speech recognition is easily faster (300+ wpm) than typing (150-200 wpm if you're good; 20-50 wpm typical, IIRC).

All he needs to establish is that he can do things like type aVariableNameLikeThis in six words (16% overhead) instead of fifteen[0] (200% overhead) and the rest of the claim follows.

[0] If you tried to type it using the out-of-box dictation in, say, Android or Dragon, you'd probably start with something like "lowercase a backspace uppercase variable backspace uppercase name..."