StuReeves,
The flaw with Voice recognistion is a simple one, language & dialect.
I am glad you said that.
stefanwagner,
Ditto.
I live in USA, but English is not my first language.
I don't have enough words to explain just HOW MUCH I hate stupid voice recognition systems. It's not that bad when What they expect from me are the whole words. But when I need to spell out a customer ID and then the code of the charge from my credit card statement to cancel a magazine subscription, it gets ugly, especially if no live person is available. Even worse that no human support is available in the evening hours, when I can call from home. So I still have to repeat myself many times from work until the system gives up and forwards my call to representative. That is ugly. Besides, I feel stupid talking to a machine. Don't you?
Do you anybody so excited about voice recognition really want their coworkers to talk to their computers all day long? Is the phone and live conversations around still not enough noise for you? Do you really want to seat on a plane, train bus next to a person with a voice recognition laptop? Would you want yourself to talk all day long and everyone around to hear what exactly you are doing?
Not me.
The only useful application for voice recognition would be home computers for vision impaired people.