Voice assistants do have a lot of potential due to the fantastic ergonomics. "Voice command line" is used as a pejorative here but it's true and a good thing. T

Voice assistants do have a lot of potential due to the fantastic ergonomics. "Voice command line" is used as a pejorative here but it's true and a good thing. The original visionaries were right to pursue this idea. To me where it's gone wrong is that like many other things the A team conceives it but the B team is responsible for its development. The A team will ask "what will users want to say to it"? But Team B says "well if they say 'blah' how do we know that they mean 'blah'"? Mediocrity creeps in. As an example, here is a typical dialog between me and my Alexa. "Alexa, play Brahms C Minor Piano Quartet." "Playing: music like Coldplay." "NO" [music like Coldplay] "Alexa NO" [music like Coldplay] "STOP" [music like Coldplay] "ALEXA STOP STOP"