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