Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
Its pretty impressive.  I haven't touched much upon trying such things for quite a few years when I last had a quick play with Dragon Naturally Speaking.<p>It's getting PRETTY close, with a basic cheap laptop microphone, my Australian accent, and no training.<p>But I did say pretty close.  Not exactly right.  And I'm only speaking a few sentences.<p>I read out a passage aloud, and apart from not quite getting everything right (but getting some remarkably difficult words/names correct), the thing that struck me is how written word, and the art form of such, is in fact quite different from a verbal stream of spoken words.  The little sigils and breaking up of a written text conveys a whole bunch of meaning and subtlety that a word for word stream doesn't quite get.<p>For me, its just inaccurate enough to still be irritating.  Everything's working fine, and then I hit a mis-dictated word, have to do a bit of a double take and ask myself "What the...what on earth does it think i'm trying to say here...oh...i said THAT!" which breaks the flow of anything but the most basic and primitive sentence.<p>But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I'm actually saying?  It's not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their brains.