> We’ve got voice input that’s getting much better.
Voice input for tasks like writing has been “solved” for at least twenty years now, you just need to get your software set up to use it. As I understand it, the improvements to speech recognition these days are making it easier to handle noisy environments, different accents, more languages, that sort of thing, but if you just care about accuracy and productivity in a controlled environment, then we’ve had good solutions available for a long time now. If you travel back in time to 2003 and decide to write a novel using speech recognition, it will still be a pleasant experience—you shell out some cash for a system like Dragon NaturallySpeaking, train it to recognize your voice, and get working. Your accuracy and productivity will improve over time as you get in the habit, and as the system adapts to your voice.
If you can do a portion of your 60 hours using voice, I recommend it. Take some load off your hands.
> We’ve got voice input that’s getting much better
I have this hilarious mental image of someone playing Diablo by yelling "Double-you Double-you Double-you aye aye dee dee dee dee"
Jokes aside,
> If you can do a portion of your 60 hours using voice, I recommend it. Take some load off your hands.
is great advice. Much of preventing repetitive stress injuries is reducing repetitive motion. I definitely ought to use more voice input, but there's an inertia aspect to it I need to overcome.
> Voice input for tasks like writing has been “solved” for at least twenty years now, you just need to get your software set up to use it.
So, where is the Linux writeup on how to do this?
The last time I tried to put my control keys on a footpad, it was a pain in the ass. The issue was you couldn't send a modifier from one HID device and a key event from a different one and have the OS pick them up and combine them. So, you had to get a special keyboard with a special footpad that you plugged into the special input on the keyboard.
I'd love to do a hybrid of voice/keyboard but I haven't seen any good writeups. I don't need everything on voice, but it would be nice to get some of the things that cause me to move my hands in the most contorted ways to be better. Hell, just putting scrolling on voice would be a big win given all the web "progressive scrolling" shittiness seems to require you to scrub the hell out of the scroll wheel nowadays.
Voice input for tasks like writing has been “solved” for at least twenty years now, you just need to get your software set up to use it. As I understand it, the improvements to speech recognition these days are making it easier to handle noisy environments, different accents, more languages, that sort of thing, but if you just care about accuracy and productivity in a controlled environment, then we’ve had good solutions available for a long time now. If you travel back in time to 2003 and decide to write a novel using speech recognition, it will still be a pleasant experience—you shell out some cash for a system like Dragon NaturallySpeaking, train it to recognize your voice, and get working. Your accuracy and productivity will improve over time as you get in the habit, and as the system adapts to your voice.
If you can do a portion of your 60 hours using voice, I recommend it. Take some load off your hands.