Just thought I'd share this tool with you lads. If you've got a long post to write and honestly can't be fucked, it may just be far easier speaking it out.
Why is everyone suddenly so obsessed with talking to their computer?
Call it a long-standing issue but this first started with women getting really into voice notes and now its ballooned. This being the same culture that previously abandoned voice and video calls for text messages. I wonder if this ties into the general decline in literacy I've seen on the internet since the 00s whereas previously your post might be mocked and banned for typos it now seems informally tolerated to not capitalise and things like that.
>>460666 I had the thought that being able to turn on or open or whatever the fuck certain parts of my PC by just saying "computer, open folder: video assets" might be nice. However, the technology is kind of crap, you'd have to have an open mic at all times and the efficiency savings are minimal at best. Basically, until the technology is literally the computer from the Enterprise-D I don't want it. And even then I suspect they only had the voice controls because those flat touch screens were a nightmare to use, unhygenic too I'll bet.
And, OP, look at what I just typed out and consider this: can you imagine how inane and rambling my posts would be if I did them stream of consciousness with my mouth, one of the few parts of my body even more stupider than my fingers?
>>460667 For me I feel especially weird about voicing all my thoughts and computer stuff in general. They must have some amazing soundproofing in the future or humanity has evolved passed the need for sexting and feelings of cringe. Maybe it's just a hangover from being a teenager but I don't think my neighbours need to hear what holograms I'm deactivating the safety protocols on or how much of a cunt I am in private.
>And, OP, look at what I just typed out and consider this: can you imagine how inane and rambling my posts would be if I did them stream of consciousness with my mouth, one of the few parts of my body even more stupider than my fingers?
There probably is a point there on how moving from text to voice communication would change how we interact with technology and by proxy our whole civilisation. The long arc of history has so far been on humans moving to talk and think more like computers, maybe voice recognition and AI will turn that on it's head. Or we'll go the antisocial route and grunt at a personal computer.
I have a personal rule where I refuse to speak when there's nobody around to hear me. I consider it mental. I will hang up on automated phone lines that ask me to talk to them. I will never get an Alexa or any other omniscient robot butler. I don't even speak to animals unless I am being overheard by a real human. Talking to these things like they are real and conscious is more insane than I am willing to be, and this is me talking so imagine how fucking doolally it must really be.
The related question I sometimes ask myself is: would I speak to a baby if I was alone with it?
>>460677 >Talking to these things like they are real and conscious
>animals
Your mum gave birth to a dead tree instead of a human child. You're fucking loopy.
How much talking to yourself is too much, you reckon?
I ramble to myself a lot but I have a feeling a lot of it is unhealthy because it will often take the form of imaginary arguments over past slights and injustices I have been ruminating over, re-enacting old arguments with ex-girlfriends, that soft of thing.
>>460683 >Language is more of an externalisation of thought than strictly for communication.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive but it seems to be fact that even speakers of another language will process information differently. The same I think is true for all of us in the difference between how we think on imageboards to our behaviour elsewhere, so long as we actually aren't terminally online.
I'll stick to my Notepad emacs to write my posts and then paste them. Particularly for longer posts it's better to get your thoughts together, rambling on even if transcribed... well, that's what's /A/ is for.
