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  3. May 2006

Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

In my opinion the best tool for text input is the human voice. IBM and the competition have developed solutions that can compensate for human pronounciation variations, such as regional dialect, using a second language, and context for words that sound the same like "too" "two" "to" but seems to me this technology has been slow to be deployed, perhaps because it needs more hardware gas than many other ingredients, resulting in the users having to speak artificially slow. 

Do we talk faster, or type faster, accurately?
Actually the human brain goes faster than either talking or typing, but I not want to suggest research into figuring out how to do direct input, since the privacy and security abuses could be astronomical. 


> A mouse was designed to be productive, and it can be.

For certain tasks, yes.  Text entry does not happen to be one of them.
It's the classic "use the right tool for the right job".

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