First, I don't want to yell at my stove. I don't want it to misunderstand me. I don't want to forget it is on (dials are pretty easy to notice out of place; yes you can add a LED but now you're compensating for a flaw that doesn't need to exist).
I don't want to compete with my Google Home or my Alexa. I don't want my Kitchen to end up a constant stream of barked commands as I cook.
I don't want to stop conversation or music just to turn my stove on and off.
I don't want to take the time to speak "Stove, please turn on the bottom right burner to setting of five" when it takes me one fifth the time to actually change the knob.
It's a UI that works. It works great. Everybody STOP messing with UI that works great, pretty please :P
Clearly you have not met my stove! It literally polls the buttons once per second. It's a total crapshoot if you need a short press or a long press to register input. Voice control on this unit would not remove anything you'd miss.
I grew up with a stove that had an analog clock and a mechanical timer. Now THAT was a nice stove interface...
My sympathies - that's because, unfortunately, you have a stove where somebody took UI that works and tried to "modernize it". It sounds like it has touch buttons.
We have a brand new, nice stove that has knobs. It works GREAT :).
My next purchase will be a microwave oven that doesn't have million useless buttons but instead two dials/knobs - how much power, and how long. And I don't expect to ever use the how much power dial either :P
I am the complete opposite of you, give me voice control on every last device. All that I ask is that my data doesn't get fed into your network, give me an option to opt out of that and I would be happy.
Yeah, my thinking is that this is a simple enough task that no network connectivity would be needed. Plus removing hands on control could increase safety and cleanliness.
1) I don't want to have to trust the company that sold the product that they currently aren't doing anything with the data, or trust that they won't change their policy a year down the road.
2) Voice recognition doesn't work for mute people, people with speech impediments, people with voices that speech recognition doesn't understand, people that don't speak (insert language here), people that just want to easily and quickly push a button and not waste time or energy saying something, people that don't want to wake the kids in the back seat, etc.
(I wonder if removing hand controls for speach recognition would violate the Americans With Disabilities Act.)
No thanks. I want my stove to last 10+ years. Replacing a single knob is a lot simpler to repair, and less likely to fail than the microphone, speaker, logicboard etc. in a voice stove.
FWIW my GE electric stove/oven was installed when my house was built in 1967 (52 years ago). Everything works perfectly except for one front burner, which went bad about 2005. Oven is perfectly calibrated. I bought the house (and stove) in 1983 and have never required a service visit. When I mentioned to an appliance tech who was installing a new Maytag washer/dryer that I was thinking of getting a more modern stove, he said, "Don't."
None of those parts could be expected to break. This wouldn't be IoT. Just a static dumb voice control system on an SoC.
But I'm with ya. My stove is turning 15 this year. Looking forward to it being able to drive next year. Maybe I can even expect some bouncing baby grandstoveren a few years after that (but hopefully not too soon, there's so much world out there for a young adult stove to see).