For me, there are two major barriers to voice-to-text dictation:<p>1) when I&#x27;m writing a message (probably due to laziness), I don&#x27;t always have the full thing formed in my head. If I were dictating to a person, abortive words and phrases would just be ignored, but when dictating to a machine I have to manually go back to erase &#x2F; correct mistakes. This can be a lot of work for a long message.<p>2) I don&#x27;t always feel comfortable speaking my messages in public; it feels a little exposing. The nice thing about text-based communication is privacy.