The article I read is called Speech Recognition as a Computer Graphics Input Technique by Richard Rabin. The article is about using speech commands to speed up input. The article touches on a lot of advantages to speech vs keyboard input. By using speech you will reduce the time it takes to train someone knew to the technology because they can learn just a few keywords to say rather than learning multiple steps. It also helps because it will increase workers speed. By saying commands rather than typing them it will not take as long to input them, especially with longer and more complex commands. Speech input technology has been demonstrated and proven that it can work but as the technology improves it will be more accurate as well as have a larger more diverse vocabulary that can be understood. Most speech input devices rely on keywords that prompt the computer to do something but in the near future they will use more continuous speech which will allow for a broader range of tasks to be completed. Testing has shown that operators are initially skeptical about talking to computers but after a short adjustment period they have no problems with it and find it very productive.
Here is a link to the article: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/810000/801278/p179-rabin.pdf?key1=801278&key2=0110255821&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=103251167&CFTOKEN=61037135
I think that speech recognition will become increasingly important -- the problem is that the technology isn't developed enough at the moment to be too useful, but unless we see increased adoption, the technology won't progress very fast. So we're in a catch 22 where we need to wait before it's entirely useful but we can't wait if we ever want to reach the point of usefulness.
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