Post #2401255

I don't use dictation on my desktop. I have spent a lot of time typing every day for my entire adult life and much of my teens. I am as comfortable typing as I am speaking — maybe more comfortable. But that's only when I have a full-size keyboard and a flat surface to put it on. On my iPhone, I dictate, rather than type, half the time or more. I use Siri for that; I haven't tried any other voice-to-text apps. In the 1970s, writer John Varley wrote a series of science fiction stories where the characters communicate with their wearable computers using "subvocalization" — whispering inaudibly. Sensors at the throat detect throat and mouth movements and convert that to speech for the computer to read. That *still* seems workable, and would solve the problem of making offices sound like call-centers.