MHO. Request of comments.

1. Why voice hardly beats
writing or typing?
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2. Since 50000 years ago, human has communicated
aurally.
Since 6000 years ago, human has used character
systems with fingers and eyes.
Now, the voice interaction with machines is going
to widely adopted in limited contexts.
But the aural authoring looks hardly beating
writing/typing yet.
Why?

3. Factors which make writing has been the
mainstream input method
Characters written
• Persistent. Repeatable.
• easy to digest multiple words instantly with
eyes
• easy to remember
• fits to reflective thinking (authoring)
• Can send to remote places
• Can keep secret

4. Voice defects in past ages
Characters written
• Persistent. Repeatable.
• easy to digest multiple words
instantly with eyes
• easy to remember
• fits reflective thinking (authoring)
• Can send to remote places
• Can keep secret
Voice spoken
• Not persistent. Not repeatable.
• Can reach only to near places.
• Open to surrounding people. Can be
even a noise.

5. Voice input in modern world
Can be recognized and converted to characters by
machines -> Persistent. Repeatable.
Can be transmitted remotely by telephone and
network.
However the privacy / noise …

6. Voice could play a mainstream authoring
method only if privacy / noise problems are
solved.