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Speech to text is the most efficient way to communicate, but you have to learn how to do it, just like you learn how to touch type or tap on your phone. And it's not just writing, but reading that we have to learn how to do, because we're not used to reading speech-to-text transcriptions.

I'm really fascinated by the dynamics that might arise in a group chat or asynchronous messaging system where everyone is encouraged to use speech-to-text and to do minimal correction of what they write.

You could set this up a few ways. You could have a group chat where, by convention, people are behaving this way. Or you could have a kind of application that makes it seamless for the user to do this.

The biggest problem in my experience is that actually the recipients have trouble parsing what's been said because so much can be said so quickly like dramatically faster than you can write

We can put our thoughts into words in a dynamic flow, and it's also something you can learn to do better. It's not something we're practicing as much now because we sub-vocalize ideas into text using our fingers, and then we go back and edit them.

But where are people practicing together, not just alone talking with machines or using this as a faster way to type, but really in a group setting where people are encouraged to speak their mind without adulteration and to directly flow their thoughts into a collective consciousness.

I'm willing to bet that that kind of environment doesn't look a whole lot like Blue Sky or Twitter, where you have only 300 characters to say what you mean to say. What you realize when you start speaking to type is that that can be filled in seconds.