[Contentless] ITT you post right now [ASAP] your current thought [Brains][Thinking][Personal][#26] (999)

323 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8988 11:16

>>321
I'm not that guy, but that's really not that hard. In conversation or lecture, people usually speak slower to convey nuances, but when dictating to convey solely textual content, 120 WPM is quite easy; I just timed myself dictating and 200 WPM is a pretty conservative estimate.

Even when speaking slowly and clearly, it's not hard. I just looked up an audiobook of Moby Dick (read by a volunteer, not a professional, and pauses for breath are left in). Chapters 4 through 7 (inclusive) run about 4100 words and are read in 27 minutes. That's ~150 WPM.

People who can type 120 WPM are in the top 1-2% of typists (at least, according to 30 seconds with a search engine). Considering the length of time that most people input text to computers, someone who couldn't speak that at 120 WPM would probably have a medical condition.

That said, there's no way in hell I'd take a voice-only system over a keyboard-only system. The systems that have grown up around the assumption that a user can input homophones correctly, press multiple keys at once, use modifier keys, etc. are too useful to give up.

>>320
If you mean "a cable coming out of your head that allows you to give commands like a keyboard and/or mouse", I've wanted that for the past twenty years at least. Unfortunately, today we'd probably get "a implanted microprocessor running a proprietary OS, bootstrapping a technically open-source OS, using a byzantine collection of libraries allowing you to write javascript functions to interact with APIs from up to four(!) major corporations, and it needs an internet connection to a central server to work".

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