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Voice control is not an improvement imo. An anecdote... I wanted to make a call to my partner recently, whilst driving. I have an old car, with all physical co
by WickyNilliams 4y ago
Voice control is not an improvement imo. An anecdote...
I wanted to make a call to my partner recently, whilst driving. I have an old car, with all physical controls. But my phone was in front of me with maps running. I said "OK Google.." and waited for it chime that it registered. "Call [my partner's name]", I commanded it. It responded that the name was unrecognised - even though it repeated the name back to me, so it wasn't a case of mishearing. I repeated this at least 5 times, getting increasingly frustrated.
Then eventually it started calling. Joy! But I notice it doesn't say my partners name on the screen, just a phone number. "OK", I think to myself, "perhaps this is some quirk of voice dialing, it doesn't show the name" (I don't know my partners number by heart so I could not recognise it).
It rang through to voicemail, and whilst the name given by the voicemail recording was correct it was definitely not my partner's voice. It turns out my phone had just dialled a random mobile number from the Internet that matched that name. It may have been a business, or a personal number, I'm not sure. Either way, I would never want this behavior!
I guess the point is that voice commands have terrible error handling and recovery modes. Give me physical controls any day. Even if they're slower, at least they are accurate, discoverable, and do not make guesses about intention