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Voice recognition is still very poor and barely used.

Interestingly, a big barrier to voice recognition is the same as with AI assistants - they don't understand context, and so they have a difficult time navigating messy inputs that you need assumed knowledge and contextual understanding for. Which is kinda the baseline for how humans communicate things to eachother with words in the first place.

Totally agree.

There are really very few situations where people really want voice recognition. The main one is hands free controls when driving or for as a remote control for TV or music.

Exactly, yeah. The high frequency of mistakes from voice commands is a specific point of friction that makes me still prefer tactile buttons for cars - ideally somewhere you don't have to take your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road. If voice command got really good, that would probably change for me.

Touchscreens are great for phones, but I'm really not a fan of them in cars where I prefer the tactile feedback of knowing what button is under my finger.

A lot of it just comes down to having the right tool for the right usecase, really.

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