I have heard people say there is no point in changing from QWERTY since
voice recognition is here (glowing reviews of Dragon Naturally Speaking 9),
so I found this quote interesting.
Voice Recognition.
Speech has been expected to be a compelling alter-
native to typing. Despite the progress made in speech recognition technol-
ogy, however, a recent study by Karat, Halverson, Horn, and Karat (1999)
showed that the effective speed of text entry by continuous speech recogni-
tion was still far lower than that of the keyboard (13.6 vs. 32.5 corrected
words per minute [wpm] for transcription and 7.8 vs. 19.0 corrected wpm for
composition). Furthermore, the study also revealed many human-factors is-
sues that had not been well understood. For example, many users found it
“harder to talk and think than type and think” and considered the keyboard
to be more “natural” than speech for text entry.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/paper … Galley.pdf
so what do you think?
all keyboards are obsolete?