My experience is simply different. I suspect it's something to do with what the other person who replied to me said and that I happen to be from the Midwest of

My experience is simply different. I suspect it's something to do with what the other person who replied to me said and that I happen to be from the Midwest of the United States with only a slight accent to give away my origin. The system was likely tuned around speech patterns like my own. But I'm not going to deny what I had at the time. I could tell my Mac on OS 9 to open "Browser" and it could. I could tell it "Open control panel" and it could. I could ask it the time, or say "schedule", and it could tell me the time or open up my calendar for me. This is why I'm somewhat dismissive of what we have today. In no way am I suggesting that voice recognition is the same now as it was 15 years ago (nor did I), but the method of operation and results are the same; the voice tools just have a larger vocabularly and thankfully can understand many other languages. But Siri and other Assistants are still pretty much just looking for keywords, just like the happy Mac was on OS 9. Siri sounds more natural than Victoria did, but if I say "Show my me daily schedule" to both Victoria and Siri, they're both going to hear "Schedule" and bring up my calendar.