Well, I'm a big Nuance /Dragon Naturallyspeaking fan, so I agree with that in spades. When you make a trully Speech-to-text workable tablet, you can do away with keyboards in many cases.

It always irritates me (though not at you in this context) when people talk about speech-to-text in connection with handicapped people. I'm not handicapped and I want it! Typing is not that fast or fun on a tablet and no pocketable keyboard can fix that.

But making decent voices has to be a lot easier than recognizing all those voices out there, which is what speech to text has to do.