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hackuser on March 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News

The solution, in the medium-long term, may be voice interface:

* "I want to read the New Yorker"

* "Open the article about traveling in India"

* "Open the email from Jennifer"

* "Open the attachment"

* "Attach the document I just edited to a reply to Jennifer"

tormeh on March 11, 2015 [–]

The problem is that mainstream consumers don't want nor need voice control. Voice recognition is good enough, but handling of free-form commands is a problem we haven't solved sufficiently well for mainstream enjoyment. Old people is rarely a target demographic for anything.

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