But as of 1997, we have been able to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Not only did the transcription have to be accurate, it also had to be discreet until about 1997, one had to rely on faithful and trustworthy assistants (or secretaries back in the Pleistocene when yours truly grew up). Heck, even before computers were ever conceived, science fiction writers and dreamers have prophesied the day when one could just speak to machines or automata and that speech would automatically be recognized as specific commands and acted upon, or in the world of business, captured, transcribed perfectly and faithfully, and then processed in whatever manner was appropriate for the business purpose one had in mind. For as long as there have been computers, humans have hoped for the ability to communicate with them the way that Dave Bowman was able to communicate with the Hal 9000 in “ 2001: A Space Odyssey”, or the crews of the Enterprise with their silicon shipmates in the various versions of “Star Trek”. We wanted so much for the technology to be usable, for it to work! For speech to be a serious input source of actual utility, like a keyboard or mouse.
Back in the misty dawn of the modern age, voice recognition software and the technologies that incorporated it fell so far short of the advertised and often over-hyped mark, that bummed out users were left to cry in their beer. Have you ever had a tool that was so painfully cool that even though it was a giant pain in the ass to use, you still loved it so much that you used it all of the time anyway? That is how this reviewer felt about computer voice\speech recognition.
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