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Originally Posted by Calenorn
With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?
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Sorry but I've tried voice to text many times over the decades. Even with the latest and greatest, it's not a satisfying experience even on high end hardware. Ranging from VoiceType back in the mid-90's to the newer Dragon Professional, Otter and Speechmatic, none of them offer the ability to easily convert random speech to text plus their lack of typos does make it more difficult to locate and correct errors.
For non-English speakers, the experience may be different but given the English language's love for homonyms and heteronyms and a grammar that has more exceptions to rules than conformance to the rules, it makes a difficult task even more difficult.
Just to save a Google search, homonyms are words spelled differently but pronounced the same (i.e. to, too, two) while heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (bow as in the weapon or hair clip or bow as in to bend in respect or the front of a ship).
You can also take a look at 'plough through enough dough to make you cough or hiccough' as a horrible example of what English can do.
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for loose grammar and new vocabulary.”—James Davis Nicoll