[AnimalMuppet]

Um, most phones will do speech-to-text...

So I think there's something more going on. I think maybe it's that text was the "default" communication medium, and speech is becoming the default.

[coev]

And most phones, even after 12+ years of this feature, badly mangle spoken text when transcribing and require editing, while the audio stays intact when sent.

[AnimalMuppet]

Fair. And the editing is hard to do while you're driving...