One of the shared assumptions in computer research is that talking to computer is a very good idea. So is this a good idea that speech is regarded as the natural interface between human and computer?

Each company with enough money to spare and enough egotism to believe that it can shape everyone's future now has a “natural language” research group. Films and TV series set in the future use computers with voice interfaces to show how far technology has advanced from our primitive day and age. The unwritten assumption is that talking to your
computer
will in the end be as natural as shouting at your relatives. The roots of
this
shared delusion lie in the genuine naturalness of spoken communication between humans. Meaning is transferred from person to person so effortlessly that it must be the best way of transferring information from a human to another object.
This
view is totally misguided.
Computer
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do not experience life as
people
do - it is
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human experience which enables
people
to understand each other precisely in a conversation where a transcript would make very little sense. Unfinished sentences, in-jokes, catchphrases, hesitation markers like "er" and "you know", and words whose meaning is only clear in the context of that one conversation are no bar to human understanding, but baffled early attempts at
computer
speech recognition. It is doubtful that talking to
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is a good thing. In fact, so-called "natural communication" with a
computer
would appear to be about
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as you can get.
People
and
computer
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inhabit different worlds. Even if you succeed in ordering your
computer
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, it'll never laugh at your jokes, make sarcastic comments, tell you the latest gossip or do any of the other things that make real human conversation
such
fun.
Then
there's that awful prospect of an office full of
people
talking to their machines. Quite apart from the generated, most
people
are bound to feel pretty ridiculous talking to something obviously non-human.
Moreover
, there is no doubt that controlling a
computer
by speaking to it only
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if you imitate an army drill sergeant. You have to avoid all those "could you's" and "would you mind's" that most of us use when we're trying to get someone to do something they don't really want to do. Since
this
will be impossible for most of us, we'll end up with machines never doing what we really want and making all manner
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in the process.
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