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Voice recognition is the way of the future!

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It's weird how inertia works, but this is how us English Canadians get the wrong keyboard thing, technically the French keyboard still has a question mark, but as it is in a different place than the English one, you wind up with an accented e and changing it instead. (You would still have a problem as French quotation marks are different than English ones).

I don't like voice recognition because I have a speech impediment, a soft voice, and a tendency to talk fast, so it always gets it wrong.

In the future, your computer will learn to recognize your voice.

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

@De Marqis Okay fine. But I think when that happens I will be one of those people who complain about how typing used to be an art form, and skill like how people now complain about the lack of hand writing (because I learned how to type fast and "properly" (hands on the home row) darn it).

edited 24th Mar '15 5:12:24 PM by phantom1

To be frank, I'd rather have keyboards click-clacking then a bunch of people talking into their microphones. I assume that a solution for that would occur, though.

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The computers will, presumably, be able to ignore other voices, but the humans may not.

"Could you keep it down? I'm talking to my computer!"

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

There are two things that make me uncomfortable about voice command: it's infinitely more free-form than pointing device and buttons, and it's infinitely more public than pointing device and buttons. I don't like to talk to a human around other people. Imagine forgetting you're in a restaurant and shouting a description of a worrying rash you just noticed at your phone.

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We don't even have French quotes on our "French" keyboard. We just use English ones, and whenever we're typing on Word, Word smart-quotes it up.

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And then some wise guy copies and pastes from Word into the wiki editor and those "smart quotes" get things all messed up.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

They don't à ù huh the graphic has the quotation mark, but the keyboard gives me the letters.Basically graphic is < or << except close together but keyboard is à and ù or À and Ù.

edited 25th Mar '15 1:28:54 PM by phantom1

What is a "graphic"?

Just curious, are all you guys really European, or do you just an affinity for alternative keyboards?

I tried to switch to Dvorak when I was in high school, but learning a second layout is more difficult than learning a first, and I realized most of the keyboards I use are not my own.

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I am.

QWERTY is fine for me. After years of schools trying to force us to learn how to type without looking, I mastered it thanks to a mix of my cell phone and relentless internet arguments :P

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"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Oddly appropriate, seeing as my player character got offed via the IFV he was in getting destroyed by an EOD bot in Battlefield 3...

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I'm European, too.

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washington: I think you'll find quite a few Europeans here, if you look at where we're from (avatar name from X), for example.

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"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I'm European and use an AZERTY as well. Although it usually takes me half a day to become at ease with a QWERTY, mainly because I used to play some video games back in the days that stubbornly refused to accept that the A key would print anything else than a Q.

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I'm British and I prefer QWERTY just because it's what I'm used to. Funnily enough, I never could touch-type until I started playing Team Fortress 2.

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I use QWERTZ which is fortunately very similar to QWERTY as far as typing text. Basically it's the same except that Y and Z are swapped. Symbols are a bit more tricky.

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Yeah, playing games done wonders for my typing. I never bothered getting any of those training programs or learning the "proper technique" or anything.

I just played Ragnarok Online and had:
1)All three rows keybinded with skills to use so that helped me to remember where's what
2)A huge urge to chat in ~7 second intervals between spellcasts I needed to get off while running around with the mouse, so I learned to type fast.

So in the end, I successfully typed that post without ever looking down to the board or keeping fingers on specific buttons (I keep them generally afloat, and freely utilize fingers from pointer to nameless on the left hand and all five on the right)