Bill Gates says speech will replace keyboards in 5 years

[Larwee]

Some people don't pay very much attention to predictions made by Bill Gates because he has a long history of being wrong with his predictions. Making predictions is not what he is best at.

Several years ago he predicted that spam would be eliminted within 2 years. Several years ago he predicted that Microsoft would surpass Google in search within a year. 11 years ago he predicted that speech technology would replace keyboards within 10 years. There are many more Bill Gates predictions that are just as wrong as these. But to be fair, he has made some predictions that were correct.

Bill Gates made a new prediction a few days ago. He now says that speech will replace keyboards within 5 years. He says there have been big advances in speech recognition technology and by 2013 it will replace keyboards.

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PC Pro: News: Gates still convinced speech will replace keyboards

[Linda Buquet]

Those of us with carpal tunnel problems will be happy!

I talk much better than I type, but speech recognition I've tried in the past
made so many mistakes I would just give up on it. I should upgrade Dragon Naturally and see if it's gotten much better.

[longroad]

I can't see this one happening to be honest. I for one prefer to type and I know alot of people do.
I think those who want speech will use speech but the old keyboard wont be disappearing for a long time yet.

[positivecarry]

Personally, I think typing is less tiring on the body than talking, however, obviously, talking saves your hands. I think chips in the brain will be the best option, you just think, and the word appears on the screen, I once saw people move cursors with thought on a television program, but who knows how long we'll have to wait for good thought/typing software. In 100 years, maybe much sooner, we'll probably have to upgrade our brain's hardware on a yearly basis

[Larwee]

positivecarry, based upon what you said, you should take a look at this thread because it involves brain reading to play video games http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5s...g-headset.html

[positivecarry]

Only a matter of time until we see some more developed mind controlled hardware and software, computer brain control classes are coming to a college near you. Imagine being denied a job because you can't get your brain to work with the programs fast enough. Sorry, but that Jim can really build the code with his mind, he doesn't even have to type, you're just too slow.

[Rob_TID]

I actually used to work for a guy who was one of the pioneers of speech recognition biometrics. There are a LOT of issues with them (accents for one).

But it basically comes down to a sliding scale. If you want a piece of software to recognise EVERYONE's speech then it will not be very accurate.

If you can develop the software to recognise the speech of a SINGLE person, then an engineer can make it reasonably accurate.

I am sure it will get there in the end, but I forsee some problems with replacing keyboards with speech.

The fact that I am typing this post from a public library would be one problem.

[wealthyman]

Its really hard for me to believe...

But we will just wait for that things to happen..

[longroad]

I like eating at the computer.. that could get messy if I had to talk at the same time!

[MLRob]

The real problem with this is privacy in the workplace. Even if people are doing what they should be and staying away from NSFW places I can't see everyone wanting anybody that happens to be near them knowing everything that they're doing. If it read thoughts then sure, but I think that may be a bit off.