[mattnewton]

My hot (maybe just warm these days) take is, the problem with voice assistants on phones is they have to be able to have reasonable responses to a long tail or users will learn not to use them, since the use cases aren’t discoverable and the primarily value is talking to it like a person.

So voice assistants backed by very large LLMs over the network are going to win even if we solve the (substantial) battery usage issue.

[nuc1e0n]

Why even bother with the text generation then? You could just make a phone call to an LLM with a TTS frontend. Like with directory enquiries back in the day. Which can be set up as easily as a BBS if you have a home server rack like Jeff Geerling makes youtube videos about.

[jazzyjackson]

1 800 CHAT GPT exists, I use it often enough to put it on speed dial on my flip phone