Why the downvotes on this? I appreciate the thoughts. I think it's a real shame that Google's assistant isn't available in a desktop client, that can use either text or voice input.

Here you go: https://developers.google.com/actions/tools/web-simulator Okay, not strictly a desktop client, but the same end result.

Similar is available for Alexa.

It might be just a visceral, reflexive reaction to reading "neuralink brain wi-fi device" and then thinking to oneself, "am I really ready to join the Borg collective?"

I mean, it's not a desktop client, but from Android you can use either text or voice for input to Google / the Assistant. I bet from iOS too.

Maybe so but for a lot of people they want information but dont want to stare at a screen to get it.

Anything beyond few words direct answers is much better to see on screens.

Then they are not going to get a very substantial response.

I've been working with speech systems on and off since 1998. They're all pretty bad in my opinion. They're not even almost there yet.

I remember studies from years back that speech is far lower throughput than typing for nearly every language except Chinese.

I hate talking, especially to a computer, when I have a typing interface. Speech is such a serial, synchronous information channel. That fact paired with how context-limited speech systems are makes for a very poor experience. It's really going to take an inventive design to get people to use speech regularly for machine interaction. We're just not there yet.