Voice Typing on MacBook: Is it the Future of Data Input?

By the time you've edited your text onscreen, you may as well have typed it from scratch. The experience of voice typing on a MacBook can be frustrating, especially when you cannot fix mistakes with your voice while dictating. This means that you are forced to either accept errors in your text or use clumsy iOS editing techniques.

However, the convenience of dictation capabilities in iOS has become more widely accepted, even if they are imperfect. Many lawyers and executives who relied on typing have learned to adapt to dictation as a skill. In fact, the idea of crafting text by speaking to your device rather than typing on a keyboard is becoming increasingly interesting.

Unfortunately, modern-day computer interfaces are designed with keyboards and pointing devices in mind, making voice interaction less effective. Despite this, voice control has been available on Macs for some time, with the current version in macOS 10.15 Catalina being quite good for those who rely on it.

The challenge lies in finding ways to use our computers that are conducive to voice interaction. For many of us, controlling our devices with our voices is still a novelty inspired by episodes of Star Trek from the 1960s. Speech recognition has long been considered the holy grail of computer data input.

Despite these challenges, it's clear that iOS and macOS dictation can learn from voice control's dictation capabilities. By focusing on addressing notification issues, improving site-specific browsers, virtualizing Windows on M-series Macs, and fixing quirky printing problems, we may be able to create a more seamless experience for those who rely on voice typing.

In conclusion, while voice typing on a MacBook is not yet the future of data input, it's an area that holds promise. With continued innovation and improvement, we may eventually see voice interaction become a viable alternative to traditional keyboard-based typing.

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