I dunno. As long as the primary form of stored and forwarded communication is written text, the fastest way to generate that text is either going to be strong native speech recognition or a physical interface that makes use of all 10 fingers, if possible. Even though voice recognition keeps progressing it still has the same limitations of any conversation: it breaks down in noisy environments, others can overhear it, accents and local dialects make it hard to comprehend and there is only one channel so it's hard for a device to always correctly separate data from commands. For these reasons I think keyboards of some form will be with us for a long long time. That and they are mainstream. Any sighted user can find letters on the keyboard and peck out some text without training. Speech recognition probably won't be mainstream for some time because of the aforementioned flaws along with the usual technical issues of high-overhead in software/hardware to make it work.
CB Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > The keyboard will become obsolete in the next 10-20 years; this is a > prediction I'm making now. It was invented in the 19th century for > the manual typewriter. It's going to go the way of the cathode ray > tube; it's primitive. Blind people either adapt or they get left > behind. I can't afford an Iphone and it frustrates me to no end > because one of my close friends (Hi, Cara!) has shown me its use over > Skype, and it's the most revolutionary thing I've seen come out > since ... talking computers? :) > > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter > > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > My home page: > http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
