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I've personally never used my voice to interact with any technology in any capacity. Whenever I see people try to talk to their phones it inevitably does someth
by izzydata 7y ago
I've personally never used my voice to interact with any technology in any capacity. Whenever I see people try to talk to their phones it inevitably does something different than what they had wanted so they have to touch the device anyway. I've assumed it was a gimmick since its inception so I find it hard to believe that such a large percentage of people actually use it to make things easier.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoVoice interfaces remind me of trying to solve a puzzle in Zork or MUDs: you have basically an open-ended command line and you have to remember incantations and get lucky when you try to stitch them together in novel ways. Like you're at a locked door in a MUD and you have a key in your inventory. "put key in lock", "insert key into lock", "unlock door", "put key in padlock", -- these all fail. Then you ask around and someone tells you you need to use "push key into door". And you wonder if you would've even come up with that in 1000 tries. That's how I've felt when using Siri and Alexa. It feels precarious.