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I'm still ambivalent. I think this tech will end up as another dead end. Playing music by speech is a novelty. I don't see anything really interesting coming from this space.

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It's way more than playing music by speech. It's looking up stuff, controlling your house, checking restaurant hours, all sorts of functions that would otherwise be fulfilled by a smartphone with less input effort.

Give one of these devices a try, you might be surprised by how much you adapt to them.

This. Also, because it's a home device it can just sit there, being used when you need and ignored until you need it again.

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

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