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Voice and speech stuff isn't going to work in today's work environments. Can you imagine an open office full of people jabbering away to their computers? I guess voice printing will to some extent prevent other people "highjacking" your computer while trying to control theirs, but the noise would be extreme.

For certain industries - e.g. tech - people like quiet to concentrate. Not unique to tech of course... libraries are quiet too for the same reason. I cant imagine the average office where concentration is required benefiting from a call-centre-esque environment where everyone is talking out loud.

.. but I guess it might mean we can get away from open offices and back to private offices?! :-)

One could imagine responding to subsonic commands, though, with a microphone in contact with the throat... I can't imagine using it for programming, but could be cool for quick navigation.

Perhaps you can skip the vocal system entirely and go straight to EEG (assuming we manage to improve the signal-to-noise ratio).

sure - as part of the presentation, the UX guy also demo'ed something like botsociety.io. Essentially, he had a Facebook chat bot with buttons to hint what is possible (leading the conversation). That sort of interaction could be likened to messaging them versus talking to them...and perfectly suitable for an office or where you don't want to broadcast certain info.

So whilst ChatOps might be fairly basic today I am open to it becoming very much more advanced in the coming years.

Yeah, there’s always a guy in one of these conversations that can’t imagine working in an office with people talking to their computers. I guess you get to be that guy this time.

The other guy is the one who will never talk in public to a computer.

Finally, you have the guy who can’t imagine not using a keyboard to program.

For the rest of us, we have no problem talking to our computers, and we anxiously await the future to arrive.

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