10 Nov
2014
10 Nov
'14
7:21 p.m.
You know, this entire discussion requires a user to
reliably hit the RETURN $
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that this statement was posted
with paragraph-length lines - ie, without hitting RETURN?
I have never had any confidence in a human
_ever_following instructions. I $
Yes, and a human who tries to type Dvorak on a QWERTY keyboard will
lose too. There's only so much broken-user it's reasonable to try to
accommodate.
In the case of a speech synth that takes phoneme codes rather than
natural-language text, I see nothing wrong with assuming it's going to
be talking to software rather than a human, possibly excepting
debugging (and debuggers can usually be trusted to be more capable of
adhering to protocol than end users such as the woman you describe).
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