[nancyminusone]

After all this time, I still don't get voice control to interact with technology. Noisy, slow, imprecise, realtime, linear. I think I've only met 2 people ever who genuinely want to do this. Everyone else I know just gets annoyed when they open their voice assistant on their phone by accident.

[Thorrez]

One benefit is avoiding screen time. You can't get sucked into your phone/computer if you don't touch them. Looking up a piece of information using the smart speaker helps prevent distraction.

Another benefit is if your hands are full. For example if you're cooking or driving.

Another benefit can be speed. If you're doing something in your house near the smart speaker, it's probably faster to ask it a question than to pull your phone out of your pocket, unlock it (I only have a password, not fingerprint/face ID), and type in the query. For people who are slow at typing, this benefit is larger.

[dyauspitr]

I don’t know about voice interactions to control things, but I do 90% of all my text input into a computer using my voice at this point. With LLMs I’d say 99% of my interaction with them is using my voice and I usually then read the text that comes back.