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The issue is that at google's scale even obscure features have millions of users. And since these features are mostly not offered by any other product, people become dependent on them. So discontinuing support will be highly disruptive.

> Who wants to send an email through the smart speaker?

People of limited mobility, without working limbs, holding babies, cooking etc.

Wonder if limiting commands will reduce misinterpretations. I once asked Google maps a question about the trip and it played a very obscure song. I asked it to stop and it played another obscure song.

As far as I understand, it uses general STT (which tries to transcribe everything, unlike say Picovoice which limits interpretation to only a few commands) + intent recognition. It probably can't interpret an utterance "stop" as anything other than its matching intent (even a bag of words classifier can) and since the STT's still the same, it probably won't change a thing.