Voice Input Debate

Voice interpretation using AI is very nearly there, it's the only input that isn't finicky.

I suck at talking. I speak in halting, quiet sentence fragments. My mind wanders and I lose my point. I get in my head a lot. I'm much better at writing and reading as a communication method. I'm open to speech stuff, but currently no speech recognition solution meets any needs I have.Just my 2c, I'm sure other people have uses for it. The most interesting one (to me) has popped up a few times on HN, which is voice-based programming. I would love to see that mature and become m

Speech to text and vice versa exists for over a decade. Where's the life altering application from that?

That's a case for voice input, rather than natural language per se.

voice transcription is silly when someone is listening you talking to something that isn't exactly human, imagine explaining you were talking to AI. When it's more than one sentence I use voice too.

I find voice AI creepy as it's always listening. If you have to press a button to get it to start listening then you're better off typing your query. Plus I scan and read faster than an AI reads responses. I'd pay more for products that dont support it. (similar story for smart TVs).

not if you don't want to. speech to text is pretty good these days, and even eg aider has a /voice command thanks to OpenAI's whisper.

Natural language wont work as the main control until we have a nueralink type product. I dont want to be talking at my computer constantly.

Try talking to it. Voice recognition is really good on most platforms today. I realize that its not always an option but can be very handy at times.

Voice is very slow. I personally never ever used siri or any other voice tools. What for? There are much better ways to interface with the device.