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I don't agree with most of his movie reviews and I don't like his politics, but he (and his wife) definitely deserves major kudos for maintaining public [whatever-the-right-word-is] in all this...
I can definitely see how this technology is still it its pre-infancy, like a 19th century horseless carriage. The ability to alter prerecorded "voice fonts" dynamically will continue to increase - the voice will still be monotone, but not as glitchy / unnatural sounding. Being able to say a word without putting your hands comfortably on a laptop is the next major step (and typing from uncomfortable positions can be bad for you, or painful for some people), so I see light-weight "keyboard gloves" being the next major breakthrough.
I wonder if we'll see the evolution of the written language to allow standardization of short-hand for common phrases (i.e. every first grader should know what BTW or TTYL means), as^well^as more }effective{ ways of ~injecting tempo & //emotion// into written speech [z].