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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by iforgotpassword on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:14AM (#18732039)
> Having a voice assistant means not having to learn to change application contexts inside an operating system follwed by a few seconds typing. You are ignoring the hundreds/thousands of hours you've spent learning which software is appropriate for which contexts. Not to mention the latency of instantiating them, or possibly even installing them, migrating data between them, etc.

I can type everything I'd issue as a voice command into my home screen. I have to install and learn just as few/many things and commands as I'd have to using voice recognition. Op might have underplayed something, you just made things up.

Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by grkvlt on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:45AM (#18732977)
How do you manage to do the typing when you're in the bath?or stepping out of the shower? or when you've left your laptop in another room? or if someone else is using your laptop for something important? The point is not that the voice commands are easy to learn or remember, it's that you have with you at all times (even if entirely naked, hey it's your house) the equipment needed to issue these commands...
Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by poooogles on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:42AM (#18732118)
>I can type everything I'd issue as a voice command into my home screen. I have to install and learn just as few/many things and commands as I'd have to using voice recognition. Op might have underplayed something, you just made things up.

You are not the market that these are targeted at then. The normal person cannot do those things.

Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by iforgotpassword on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:58PM (#18742969)
A normal person cannot type an English sentence? Wow, I really seem to he disconnected from normal people.