My conspiracy part of my brain pings and says, it gives the NSA convenient access to parsed voice calls which probably pays Google well. That being said the op

My conspiracy part of my brain pings and says, it gives the NSA convenient access to parsed voice calls which probably pays Google well. That being said the opposite could be just as true and they will just shut it down, this could very well be a consolidation to see if moving everything to voice is worth maintaining.