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Originally Posted by ingmar
What's the difference, apart from (in most cases) the display? Yes, speech recognition would necessitate a microphone, and perhaps more processing power, but if my cell phone can do it I don't see why my ereader couldn't. Not sure how useful it would be for me, but it's definitely not unfeasible.
A better database, supporting multiple tags and search criteria, now that'd be something.
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I think speech recognition is certainly doable, I'm just not sure if it's practical from a usability perspective. Many people read on public transit, which would not only require discrimination circuits, but would probably annoy people around the reader.
Also, on a personal level, I find speech recognition systems more intrusive than buttons or swipes. I can swipe without taking my mind off the words, to speak I have to use my speech centers to control rather than motor centers.
It's clearly doable, but I think it's enough of a niche case that it's probably pretty far down the priority list.