I think voice is underutilized as a 3rd, powerful complimentary interface; mouse and keyboard being the first and second. A smart speaker doesn't enable me to be more productive on the tool I use most, my computer.
I'm building something that I think is much more powerful than smart speakers for the following reasons.
1. It's software and lives on the hardware that you already have... your computer. It's not a standalone hardware device silo'd from the existing tooling you use daily.
2. It provides visual feedback (live transcription, with colors indicating what's understood), because it can. Smart speakers can't.
3. It's a browser extension, so it easily integrates with all the webapps that you use daily: gmail, google docs, hacker news... any webapp you want it to.
I'm building something that I think is much more powerful than smart speakers for the following reasons.
1. It's software and lives on the hardware that you already have... your computer. It's not a standalone hardware device silo'd from the existing tooling you use daily.
2. It provides visual feedback (live transcription, with colors indicating what's understood), because it can. Smart speakers can't.
3. It's a browser extension, so it easily integrates with all the webapps that you use daily: gmail, google docs, hacker news... any webapp you want it to.
4. Plugins are intuitive to develop and open-source so anyone can build off and improve them (https://github.com/lipsurf/plugins)
It's a work in progress, but in case anyone is interested: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lipsurf-voice-cont...