Voice assistants are the most useful new UI to me since smartphones. I use them to get travel time estimates, reference facts, music and podcasts, rewind / for

Voice assistants are the most useful new UI to me since smartphones. I use them to get travel time estimates, reference facts, music and podcasts, rewind / forward / pause / resume / next / previous, timers, lights, and occasionally broadcast messages on home speaker devices. I use voice UI while cooking, running, mowing, raking, driving, changing diapers, putting on my kids' clothes, and while sitting with my wife. My two young children (5 and almost 2) love voice UI. We ask about the animal of the day, what does this animal sound like, play that song. My older child is beginning to set timers with it. My wife recently said having a nearby voice assistant is important in a home configuration discussion. My family and I sometimes have frustrating experiences with voice UI, like failed hotwords, shifting syntax, answering on an unexpected device, and slow responses. But we still use it frequently, and our overall sentiment with voice UI is positive.