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Speech recognition
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 7 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Garbled speech output is hard to correct, needing repeated attemptsUnreviewed
20102026- Dictation has ~1 second latency and garbles words, and corrections re-garble the same words2020-10-26
- Speech recognition makes so many errors that dictating code is frustrating2020-10-21
- Speech recognition fails on arbitrary identifiers like strncmp not in dictionaries2017-07-05
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Speech recognition is unusable for a deaf speaker, transcribing their speech far worse than most people's.2025-10-14
- Dictation has ~1 second latency and garbles words, and corrections re-garble the same words2020-10-26
- Speech recognition makes so many errors that dictating code is frustrating2020-10-21
- No way to discover which voice commands are available2019-03-09
- Speech recognition fails on arbitrary identifiers like strncmp not in dictionaries2017-07-05
- Speech recognition output is so garbled that correcting it is hard, needing repeated attempts2016-09-01
- Spoken commands execute before user can review or correct mistakes2010-07-19