Stop trying to save the world

Voice recognition

VOICE RECOGNITION
Voice recognition is rapidly becoming the hottest “new” killer application, mainly because computing power available to the average user is now sufficient to do things that were science fiction only a few short years ago…

Dictation vs. typing is an obvious advantage. However, NaturalLanguage as a command- generating and triggering paradigm is much more powerful, but yet in it’s infancy. At abens.net/languagestudio, our project workflow often starts with creating project- specific voice commands for publishing, archiving, backup and security, which takes a minute or two…

voxitlogo

THE BOTTOM LINE
Leveraging the power of voice recognition and computer - assisted translation to optimize the entire process from workflow design to translation and especially PC/ network/ office management has given us an enormous boost in productivity. The learning curve is minimal and the improvement in the quality of life is surprisingly great! There is certainly no going back…

Why isn’t everyone using it already?

This is a good question.
For my part, I did not believe that it would actually work well enough to make it worth the trouble.

But it is not hard to find examples of reluctance to adapt a new modus operandi, even when the benefits obviously outweigh the necessary investment. For every new trick there are a lot of old dogs.
The QWERTY keyboard in itself is a perfect example. The key placement, as everyone knows, was designed to avoid jamming the hammers in the typewriter, with little regard for ergonomy. User-friendliness was yet to be invented. That’s why switching to voice recognition is doubly satisfying, because I don’t rid myself only of the keyboard, but I rid myself of THIS STUPID KEYBOARD.