When zigzagging around people in New York, I can’t be staring down at my phone to text. Speech-to-text tools have become crucial for quick communication while double-fisting a smartphone and a Jamaican beef patty. The problem is that sometimes the system interprets words incorrectly, misses punctuation or stops recording altogether. This makes me stop in the middle of pedestrian traffic, where I need to go back and begin editing, eliminating whatever conveniences speech-to-text afforded me. Frankly, this should be fixable with AI, the technology that’s upending how we shop, browse the…
