{"id":293,"date":"2009-05-09T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T06:15:32","slug":"aside-are-voice-command-interfaces-the-way-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/aside-are-voice-command-interfaces-the-way-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Aside &#8211; Are voice command interfaces the way of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: No.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly longer answer: Can you imagine a world of the future where we tell our computers what we want to do instead of typing? You can? Well, now imagine that world of the future when you&#8217;re in a cubicle with 3 other people all telling their computers what you want them to do, and there&#8217;s another 19 cubicles on your floor, with another 4 people in each of those cubicles each talking to their computers all day long?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it&#8217;s difficult enough working in corporate environments with people around us on the <em>phone<\/em>, let alone people around us either being on the phone or <em>talking<\/em> their way through an email, or uttering random commands.<\/p>\n<p>Voice command interfaces will undoubtedly continue to improve as processors and digital sampling systems continue to improve, and they will serve a purpose in the future. However, seeing as we would need a fundamental revision to the layout of offices and space within businesses to facilitate <em>all<\/em> computer-using employees speaking all day at their computers, it&#8217;s not likely to be the future of corporate computer usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: Can you imagine a world of the future where we tell our computers what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[1090,1091],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","category-general-technology","tag-voice-commands","tag-voice-input"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-4J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}