Keyboards are here to stay.  At least one study has been done that compares optimal speaking to optimal typing and typing won.  And that was on a QWERTY!

If "optimal typing" beat "optimal speech" in a test, surely it must've been some sort of shorthand typing system. Normal speech is reported as around 200 WPM, and this is nearly the very fastest QWERTY typing speeds recorded (such as Barbara Blackburn's 212 WPM record using dvorak, and that other one with QWERTY which was only slightly faster). To keep up with speed talkers, stenography is needed.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-diffe … ping-speed

While the results varied, the researchers concluded, "If you type faster than 45 WPM, you can enter data more quickly by typing than by error-free speech entry. A slower typist would be quicker by speech entry if it could be done without errors (Italics ours)"  http://atri.misericordia.edu/Papers/Speech.php

pinkyache - Actually the results of the studies are for perfect speech recognition which can't be improved upon regardless of the program.  It has to do with the limitations of language not hardware or software.

Davkol, I've been around the Internet since 1997 and I still don't know what a troll is.  My purpose for being in this forum is to share with participants the progress of my efforts in seeing to it that the Colemak keyboard becomes the international standard.  As for the studies the second one that I listed is clear.  Typing beats speech as the written word (documents) is very different from the spoken word.

It might be better nowadays, but I still convinced that for effective usage of VR SR (speech recognition) we need to have a strong AI (artificial intelligence) as a speech recipient. Something like a trained secretary, but in computer. Siri, Alexa, etc, are moving in that direction.

What I meant, that it'd be more convenient to use speech recognition if subvocal laryngophones were commonplace. Maybe it'll happen?

I don't think that silent speech interfaces are going to be very practical for most people any time soon. Would be cool of course.

I did not. I used it to mean Virtual Reality! Hah. ^_^

I realized only today that you'd interpreted it differently.

DreymaR  Let me be clear about my assertions concerning keyboarding Vs speech recognition.  My contention is that keyboarding wins even with "perfect" speech recognition.  2004, 2017, and for all time. 

To quote the study:

"Recognition accuracy of text is less an issue with state-of-the-art speech recognition than is error correction and navigation commands...  While text entry was relatively easy by voice, error correction and formatting presented substantial barriers. We found that a typical individual required approximately twice the time to complete a document containing a mixture of elements by voice than with the keyboard. The accuracy of the resulting document was also lower than for one produced by the keyboard."

And remember that all of that is with QWERTY with all of its limitations.

Does Speech Recognition Deserve Recognition? A Study Comparing the Efficacy of Speech Recognition vs. the Standard Keyboard{ Denis Anson, MS, OTR; Luann Daveski, OTS, Patrick Chavannes, OTS, and Karen Shaughnessy, OTS