I agree with David H. Voice commands work fairly well, but it takes 
time. The devices need to get used to our voices, and we need to get 
used to speaking in ways that make sense to the devices. also, voice 
recognition is based on prediction to some degree, so common utterances 
always yield better results than less common ones.

I don't use Siri. I use Google Voice on my Androids. I notice that 
recognition has a hard time with proper names. It does well on common 
names like Wendy, Frank, and Cecile, but it struggles with names that 
are more unusual. for example, I freelance for a company called 
Communicaid. Even though it's in my contacts and even though I send or 
receive calls about once a week and have multiple calendar events that 
include the company name, I can't get the recognizer to enter it 
correctly, so I either correct the name or type it, then use voice 
recognition on the rest of the calendar entry.


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