To me that is a narrow definition of reading charlse. If an author wrote the
words and I understand them, I've read them, heck even when I used to read
books in braille I always imagined the sound of the words in my brain rather
than just picking up on the letters.
For a sighted person, it is slightly different, but given the time it takes
to read something in braille why take the time? If you think these old
skills are so valuable, well do you have central heating in your home or do
you go out, chop down trees and put them on a fire? Do you go out and hunt
creatures in the forest with a spear? sinse hay, what would you do without
electricity.
Unless tactile display can catch up with technology, (which I hope it
does), I don't personally see braille surviving as a medium sinse the
majority of things it can do for conveying information can be done far more
easily and cheaply by a screen reader.
As regards speaking, well as I said I could see a problem if the software is
too dictatorial, but if you could for example specify your punctuation and
spell your fantasy names to the software so you would have the same creative
freedom with your text as you would when typing, ---- well what is the
problem?
Beware the Grue!
dark.
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