Do they even talk to their phones? The most prolific use of speech I can see in users around me are voice memos being sent as messages, which I can kinda get. I

Do they even talk to their phones? The most prolific use of speech I can see in users around me are voice memos being sent as messages, which I can kinda get. It's like a better, asynchronous phone call. I prefer text to speech, but for people who prefer speech over text, this seems very useful. But that's not really talking to your phone in any meaningful sense. The people when have Alexa and the like in their house tell me they only use it to set timers and play music (and even then, it's 'play my playlist' or something similar. They know it's going to trip on 'play Völlig losgelöst', or even just 'play Peter Schilling' is not unliktly to fail). Computers have more potential, but if they can't reliably recognise what you say, we've failed before we've even started. And I have little faith that they can reliably act on what you said, never mind what one might have meant.