{"id":775,"date":"2016-06-15T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2020-06-28T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T14:18:47","slug":"who-uses-voice-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/who-uses-voice-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Who uses voice control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voice control (Siri, Google Now, Amazon Echo, etc.) is not a very useful feature to me, and wonder if I&#8217;m in the minority.<\/p>\n<p>Why it is not useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I live with other people.\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes one of the people I live with or myself may be sleeping. If someone speaks out loud to the TV or phone, that might wake the other up.<\/li>\n<li>Even when everyone is awake, that doesn&#8217;t mean we are together. It annoys me when someone talks to the TV while watching basketball. I don&#8217;t want to find out how annoying it would be to listen to someone in another room tell the TV or their phone what to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I work with other people.\n<ul>\n<li>If I&#8217;m having lunch, and a co-worker wants to look something up on his\/her phone, I don&#8217;t want to hear them speak their queries out loud. I actually have coworkers that use their phones as boomboxes to listen to music while eating lunch, as if no-one else can hear it, or everyone has the same taste in music, or everyone wants to listen to music at all during lunch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only times I use Siri are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I am in the car.<\/li>\n<li>When I am speaking with others in a social setting, like a pub, and we want to look something up pertaining to the conversation.<\/li>\n<li>When I&#8217;m alone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I saw Apple introduce tvOS, the dependence on Siri turned me off from upgrading my Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>Am I in the minority here?<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling I&#8217;m not. I cannot recall anyone I know using Siri for other anything than entertainment with friends. Controlling devices with your voice in public must be Larry David&#8217;s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RaIItpVL0E\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice control (Siri, Google Now, Amazon Echo, etc.) is not a very useful feature to me, and wonder if I&#8217;m in the minority. Why it is not useful: I live with other people. Sometimes one of the people I live&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/who-uses-voice-control\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}