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Originally Posted by Lotus Esprit
The full voice recognition barrier will be the next one broken. There are arguments on this each way. For instance, most people can talk faster than they can type. Also most people work in an office and not on an airplane. Before laptops people did not carry around typewriters for in flight productivity.
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Certainly in europe the majority of people tend to work in offices that are at least somewhat open-plan rendering voice control pretty useless there. so it's not just on the plane that it wouldn't work, just imagine the chaos when the person with the overly loud voice needs to reboot their machine all afternoon.
Voice control has times when it can be useful e.g. voice dialing on your phone when driving, but it simply isn't a control method that will be useful enough for full mainstream usage and it doesn't seem that likely that it will be heavily pursued when there is still plenty of room for touch interfaces to keep improving.