Moving. Personally, voice input has finally become practical.

I basically spend most of my time working in front of a PC.

Since I write a lot of text, I also do a lot of typing using a keyboard.

Since I started this job about 10 years ago, the number of times I type has increased significantly.

I didn't have a habit of typing before that, so I struggled to learn the keyboard layout, and there were many times I thought handwriting would be faster.

But as expected, as I continued for a long time, I went from typing with only my index fingers to using all ten fingers, and after that, I became able to type without looking at the keyboard.

Precisely because I became able to type much faster than handwriting, the next problem emerged: my fingers get tired.

Having written about 5,000 to 10,000 characters of text every day, it was around this time that I began to understand the feeling of my hands getting tired.

Shortly after that, I learned that there was software available for voice input.

It was a system where you purchase the software and have it learn your voice to improve the accuracy of voice input.

Even so, there were limits. Since I would create text with voice input and then correct typos with the keyboard, it didn't really save much time in the end.

After that, voice input appeared on smartphones, and I remember being moved, thinking, "Has this era finally arrived?"

However, even then, the accuracy of voice input was low, and I just couldn't bring myself to use it...

Since then, along with updates to voice input, I've had more opportunities to use it, but I've repeatedly felt that keyboard input is still easier.

And today, using voice input after a long time, I am convinced.

That it has finally become practical.

I think there's a chance that my opportunities to use a keyboard might decrease significantly.

While it's true that typos and omissions have decreased significantly, what I really like is that it can be used in conjunction with a keyboard.

While creating text with voice input, I type characters that can only be expressed with a keyboard.

And as soon as I finish typing, I return to voice input.

This typing -> voice input -> typing -> voice input...

I realized that this switching has become quite smooth.

When it comes to using voice input on a smartphone, I personally feel like flick input is fine, but I realized that voice input can be quite useful when typing text on a keyboard.

Well, technologies utilizing AI have been increasing, after all.
I thought that voice input would also become overwhelmingly more usable than before.

By the way, my recommended way to use voice input is when summarizing reading notes into text.

Until now, I would hold the edge of the page to take notes while reading, or sometimes use sticky notes, but the task of transcribing that into a web notepad was incredibly tedious.

However, by utilizing voice input, you just need to speak the parts you noted while reading the book, and you're done.

Moreover, since you are speaking to take notes, I feel like it helps with memory retention. It is truly convenient.

It adds punctuation automatically, and if you make a mistake while speaking, it automatically corrects the text.
It's so convenient that it makes me want to cry...

Of course, I wrote this text using voice input.
Really, it's good. This is great.