Even accessibility reasons are important by themselves. Almost everyone if they live long enough will lose some ability with their hands. My dad used Google’s voice search exclusively on his Android to look up YouTube videos. The first thing I installed on his iPhone 16 Plus was the Google app. He uses voice for everything that would require typing.
Google and search is a shit show. I’ve completely stopped using search for anything moderately complicated and have been using the paid version of ChatGPT since it integrated web search almost two years ago.
There is a lot of trivia that people want to use their voice for. Siri use to be good at that and gave you reliable answers by going directly to bespoke data sources for it.
It’s much easier to tell Siri “remind me to get the milk out of the back seat when I get out of the car” (or get in the car, get home, etc) than configure that manually.
That works as long as usually pair your phone with the car over Bluetooth.
Accessibility reasons are absolutely important, but the AI industry woudln't be worth the amount of moeny it is if the best application of the technology was accessibility.
Google and search is a shit show. I’ve completely stopped using search for anything moderately complicated and have been using the paid version of ChatGPT since it integrated web search almost two years ago.
There is a lot of trivia that people want to use their voice for. Siri use to be good at that and gave you reliable answers by going directly to bespoke data sources for it.
It’s much easier to tell Siri “remind me to get the milk out of the back seat when I get out of the car” (or get in the car, get home, etc) than configure that manually.
That works as long as usually pair your phone with the car over Bluetooth.