Replacing keyboard with voice control

Question

I am sick of using a keyboard.

Has anyone had any success with voice control of their computer, using tools such as Dragon Naturally Speaking? What about coding tasks, and control of an IDE? Any problems specific to that?

Answer 1

With the current state of Voice Recognition, it is not advisable to even think of replacing your keyboard with it.

I have done some basic experiments with Vista's voice recognition engine, however I haven't found it to be suited for any voice-to-text task. This is not even speaking of IDE integration, which would require mapping language keywords (what to do about brackets?) to voice commands.

On the other hand, it might be very well possible to supplement your input possibilities with voice recognition for commands. But I don't think voice commands will inherently ever come close to the speed hitting an intelligent shortcut on my keyboard.

I have always tried to get my fingers on a NIA (Neural Impulse Actuator) such as OCZ is offering. This might solve the speed issue, and is in theory even faster than a keyboard shortcut. However, you won't have many possible commands and I heard it requires significant training and concentration.