Re:Ask HN: If you could talk to a database in plain English,...
by brochington on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:50PM
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Ah, sorry, I should clarify that when I say "talk", I didn't mean it in the literal sense. I've only worked on text as a source, though Speech-to-text shouldn't be too hard to integrate if it was needed.
I like your insight about using... let's call them "key phrases"...to help guide the query. Perhaps having a way to map a key phrase with a specific query, maybe one that is parameterized, would be useful. thank you.
I think this is definitely something that should be looked at, but it's not a product I'm really interested in unless it wows me with it's intelligence. It has to start somewhere, though. I'm probably an outlier in the sense that I think a lot of people would rather talk to their computer than type on a keyboard. I'm just not one of them. I also don't want to work in cubicle hell with everyone speaking to their computer 24/7.