I actually thought that the speech recognition was a huge plus as depicted in the movie. Since accuracy was no longer an issue there were a bunch of benefits:

I actually thought that the speech recognition was a huge plus as depicted in the movie. Since accuracy was no longer an issue there were a bunch of benefits: - The AI character Samantha could judge mood from the user's tone and volume. There's something intimate and human about vocalizing one's thoughts and it would be great to build on that instead of getting rid of it. - There is some semblance of separation and privacy between computer/AI and user. I wonder how this would work with a neural interface.