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Do you think that you're a typical user? Do you think that MS/AAPL/GOOG will go out of its way to collect your user data in particular, when it can get million

• kbart 11y ago
  "Do you think that you're a typical user?" No, but I also know very few typical users that use voice controls extensively. "Do you think that MS/AAPL/GOOG doesn't have voice recognition for other languages? Did you look it up at all?" Voice controls in Lithuanian (my mother tongue) on Android didn't work until very recently (2015 Sep, according to Wiki) and it still works very poorly. If your primary language is not a mainstream one, you are out of luck. I'm sure it will get better, but it's not among the reasons I don't use it anyway (see below). "Do you think that MS/AAPL/GOOG will go out of its way to collect your user data in particular, when it can get millions or billions of people's user data?" I'm very pro-privacy, but it's not my main concern when talking about voice controls. The main drawback and reason why I hate it, is that talking breaks concentration and disrupts workflow. Another reason is that I don't like people around hearing what I'm doing, I can imagine a lot of anecdotal situations regarding "Computer, load PornHUB" etc. Also, it annoys other people around -- imagine a shared, dormitory like flat where all people are using voice controls at once.