Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech

Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by pmontra on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:25AM (#33717855)

> But how? Even if those interfaces were actually working, it's still extremely inconvenient to talk when you can click

Working from home changes that. I can see many more opportunities for a multimodal input interface. Examples:

1. My fingertips now are closer to the "reply" button below this text area than they are even to the touchpad. Touching "reply" is half a second, moving one hand to the touchpad, aiming the pointer at the button and clicking takes longer. With a mouse: much longer. Anyway, my screen is not a touchscreen. I'll click.

2. Or, with an assistant, I could have said "Click reply", provided that the assistant knows where the focus is and that it can read the form I'm typing in.

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Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by jorams on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:28AM (#33718851)

Your fingertips while typing are even closer to the Tab and Enter keys on your keyboard, which, if pressed in sequence, have the exact same effect. Much simpler and much faster than either of your options.

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Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by pmontra on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:41AM (#33721450)

Faster, don't know. Simpler, I didn't even think about it. However I'm doing it now. Thanks.

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Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by bruh2 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:04AM (#33730364)

Wow, the second point is really interesting. Binding a voice command to a key, in this case Enter.

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