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One of the challenges with voice assistants is that voice is a very low bandwidth medium for communicating information. If I ask Siri to tell be about Bill Gates, it would take her a minute to read to me what I could skim in seconds from a Google Search result.

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There's nothing inherent to voice assistants that requires that they speak back to you. You can ask them using voice, and get the results on a screen.

Same with phone messaging (like whatsapp etc) where it's much faster to receive a text message vs the same message in spoken audio.

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