But if it's going to require phoning home to some Google/OpenAI/whoever then forget it. I don't want a constant connection to my OS from one of these companies.
Except for the large majority of people who read, type, and click way faster than they can talk. Especially for visual things it’s way faster to drag a rectangle than to describe what you want.
A lot of us also aren’t linear verbal thinkers. It would take minutes to hours to verbalize concepts we can grasp visually/schematically in seconds.
Great book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60149558-visual-thinking
I usually convey the same meaning with 80wpm typing. Makes it faster to read too
Maybe I’m just slightly adhd – listening to people talk drives my crazy. Get to the point! Much easier if they type it out
People have so many verbal tics and filler words too. Anthropic’s Dario says “you know” after every third word, for example.
Or they meander around unrelated/unimportant details.
Neither typing speed nor dictation speed is a true bottleneck, but editing speech seems like it'd be harder than editing text.
Though there may be some hybrid approach that can work well.
I hadn’t realized until just now how accurate that is for me as well. Thank you.