Fact · Dictation
In 1983, the authors stated that speech recognition was not yet advanced enough to provide people with a reliable listening typewriter.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“speech recognition is not yet advanced enough to provide people with a reliable listening typewriter”
Composing letters with a simulated listening typewriter, John D. Gould et al., Communications of the ACM, 1983, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/2163.358100)- What it measures
- The sentence describes the state of recognition at the time of the study, which is why the experiments used simulated typewriters.
- What it does not show
- This is a historical statement. It does not describe the accuracy of any current dictation software.