From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Re: Voice driven editing Article-I.D.: ucb.1292 Posted: Sat Jun 5 09:31:19 1982 Received: Sun Jun 6 00:36:35 1982 >From cbosgd!mark Sat Jun 5 09:12:57 1982 It seems to me that, if the technology can support it, voice driven editing would be at its best in input mode. People can talk much faster and with less training (of the people) than they can type. On the other hand, for editing commands, I would think that voice would be a bottleneck. Especially for positioning the cursor. You can't point with your voice. Can you imagine trying to position the cursor orally: "up up up left a word no, make that right a word, right right ok". Try moving your lips as fast as you can type arrow keys. There would be no comparison with a mouse. On the other hand, you can point with your eyes really well. If you had a gizmo that could figure out where you are looking, you'd really have something. These gizmos do exist, but I understand you have to wear a helmet with lots of stuff on it. Mark Horton