In addition to all the other people saying how this is wrong, particularly for older people and people who are better at speaking and listening than reading and writing, there are several other use cases where they are a superior input mode.
As a detractor of these devices and someone who will never own one unless it does all the voice recognition locally, I found this to my surprise and regret.
First is when your hands are full. If you're in the kitchen, or working with tools, you can get a unit conversion, look up some fact, or change the music.
Second is as an input device to a TV. Particularly when there are a number of different applications you could open. Fidgeting around with a remote is difficult, and even if you had a keyboard it might be on the other side of the room from where you are. (Part of the problem being solved here is integration between apps and input devices, not just the voice input.)
Despite their advantages, the current situation is as if you could only buy a keyboard from 2 or 3 companies, and you were only allowed to type things that they allowed on it. And all your keystrokes were sent to their servers to be interpreted first.
As a detractor of these devices and someone who will never own one unless it does all the voice recognition locally, I found this to my surprise and regret.
First is when your hands are full. If you're in the kitchen, or working with tools, you can get a unit conversion, look up some fact, or change the music.
Second is as an input device to a TV. Particularly when there are a number of different applications you could open. Fidgeting around with a remote is difficult, and even if you had a keyboard it might be on the other side of the room from where you are. (Part of the problem being solved here is integration between apps and input devices, not just the voice input.)
Despite their advantages, the current situation is as if you could only buy a keyboard from 2 or 3 companies, and you were only allowed to type things that they allowed on it. And all your keystrokes were sent to their servers to be interpreted first.