Should spell check or voice recognition programs be incorporated into all computer related activities or are they unreliable?

Spell-checking is built-in to all text fields on a Mac. You can enable voice recognition too (although it’s much less effective).

on my sprint phone by samsung the spell check is AWFUL. it doesn’t let you override so if you miss something, you have totally random non-functional words they inserted going out in your texts and emails. if you want to put in a name or another word that’s not in their system, you have to put spaces between the words. so… spell checks are good as long as they can be turned off at will, not enforced as present.

Confucious say person who rely on spell checker in big trouble.

Spell check is the source of some of the most hilarious malapropisms and eggcorns.

However it is in most of the applications I use [Microsoft and Adobe products, Sun’s Open Office]

Spell check mostly works.
But voice recognition often outputs results that are “historical” (hysterical).
It does not understand the context.
Some of my Google Voice transcripts are hilarious.

Spell checkers are not living entities. How do they learn about words like refudiate? They have to read newspapers.

Voice recognition adds to the noise levels of large offices. Keyboards and mouse clicks are often faster when telling our computers what to do. Telling your Firefox browser “to open the Tools – Options – Advanced Dialog Box ticking search for text when I start typing” involves a lot of words compared the four mouse clicks.

Voice recognition makes sense when you need to type a lot of text.