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Re:Voice UI Is the Future. But When? by dalbasal on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:00AM (#16308017)
I think we're of a similar mind.

Voice recognition and very simple NLP have gotten good pretty fast, and is still improving fast. That's necessary but not sufficient for a good UI.

The interaction model just isn't good enough yet. We probably need a podcatcher app to be built for voice-first, in order to discover the right UI.

Re:Voice UI Is the Future. But When? by ghaff on Monday February 05, 2018 @07:40AM (#16308407)
I suspect you’re right. More conversational NLP would help. But, as a practical matter, we probably also need applications that are explicitly designed to work in concert with voice UIs rather than simply using voice as an alternative for filling in a search box or whatever. For example, you need apps that expect a certain back and forth to resolve an action.