It will be interesting to see how voice recognition technology affects people’s interaction with their computers. Microsoft has reportedly made major strides towards making the technology reliable and accurate in its new edition of Windows Vista.

Voice recognition will not lead to the overnight demise of the keyboard but it’s foreseeable that it could make early inroads into specific applications. A leading candidate is the blog. Blogs would be much easier and quicker to update if people could abandon their keyboards dictate their thoughts instead. Admittedly, most people speak quite differently from how they write. Then again, most blog entries tend to be brief and conversational, which makes them a perfect place to try out voice recognition.

If you ask me, the future of voice recognition looks bright. While the average person types 50 words per minute, some voice recognition software is accurate upwards of 100 words per minute. Better still, it will be easier on the eyes.