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human
I believe that voice control for computers is a useless gimmick. CMV.

I don't understand all the appeal of voice control (Siri, Google Now) in computers today. Voice is not information dense; any form of input or output you can do via voice you can do faster via other means. If there's anybody else in earshot, you also look like an idiot. So... why is it around?

I think it's because it looks "cool" the handful of times you actually use it - either in the store, or at home after opening the box. The reviewer who doesn't actually use the device for very long is also similarly impressed.

Beyond that, though, it's a gimmick. CMV.
gpt
>I don't understand all the appeal of voice control

...said the man with arms.

Honestly, it's cool (for reasonably loose definitions of 'cool'), until it becomes mainstream.  Then it just 'is', and everyone accepts it.  Eventually it may become standard, but that depends.

Look at how touchscreens took off.  The first ones that were really commercially made were in ~1983.  Today they're ubiquitous, though they're still trying to catch on for desktop computers.  After 30 years they're finally almost standard.

Voice control (which has also been around for a long time) is at the start of catching on.  Partially because the computing power necessary for it is finally arriving.  Partially because we're so used to people walking around talking to their phones through hands-free headsets that seeing people talking to themselves for no discernible reason isn't that big of a deal any more.

Kids these days can barely write, everyone learns to type at an early age, so it's not needed.  Maybe down the road, people will barely be able to type, since all you have to do is talk at your computer.  Don't be too surprised...if in the 80's or 90's you'd have tried to convince someone that *writing* would be becoming a lost art in a couple decades, you'd have been laughed at.