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Hilarious, but even more so because in this case, he's using the wrong tool for the job - speech recognition wasn't designed for 'typing' code. That's ignoring the fact that unless he's a horrid typist, he's wasting time.
Still, amusing.“And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'†~ Merlin Mann
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Both the video and the Newton story are hilarious.
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Originally posted by Jessterw View PostHilarious, but even more so because in this case, he's using the wrong tool for the job - speech recognition wasn't designed for 'typing' code. That's ignoring the fact that unless he's a horrid typist, he's wasting time.
Still, amusing.
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Originally posted by Kooldino View PostExactly. Plus, he kept saying other stuff for no reason (ie, "thank you"). So some of it was his own dumb fault.
He was a nice guy, otherwise you would get an earful of F _ _ K Y _ UDiplomacy, it's a way of saying “nice doggieâ€, until you find a rock!
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Well, one thing I noticed in the video is that the recognition engine seems to be very good. If it does that well without training, then it's pretty amazing. (realize though that my last experience was with Dragon Dictate )
The problem was the interpretation of the recognized words. I think there's also a problem in that control and dictation language are used at the same time, unlike Dragon which had a "menu mode" and a "dictaion mode". Also, the dictation system is quite obviously not meant for coding, since capitalization is nowhere near that of natural language.
I suspect that the guy also didn't know all the "keywords" to modify input. It's possible that saying "all caps info" would have typed INFO instead of info or Info.
- Steve
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Also, as Jesse pointed out already, coding is not speech, it is not language, and tools aren't made for it. Ever tried to dictate code to a buddy over the phone? It takes ages. Code isn't made to be spoken. How do you pronounce "char"?
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