I'm surprised this is a thing. with the advances in STT I want the other extreme - a smaller and smaller device that leverages better voice control - super efficient inferencing chip on board and low power mic that's worn on your person to make said STT very very accurate (>95% word accuracy).

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drakythe 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The thing I am always curious about with voice controlled devices is how do you use them in public? On the bus? Subway? How do you discretely check a message while in a lecture hall?

Voice control makes for a fun scifi gimmick but it is incredibly impractical in real life without an alternative interface, in my experience.

	▲	wowczarek 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This. Speak to type I can understand, to a degree, but for proper voice control to be quick and effective and anything more than a gimmick, it would need to rely on some shorthand - kind of how full-on screen reader action for those visually impaired is very intense - just the other way round.
	▲	websiteapi 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You would still have a screen. The device itself could just be smaller.