phil shinn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:13:26 GMT

Re your predictions on Voice – that it has a ‘nebulous’ future: I think that speech is the easiest, lowest effort, fastest means of communications for humans, and that will not change. What will change is the ability of machines to do speech recognition, so your scenario of calling a multi-tasking teen for a pizza order will actually become you calling 1-800 GOOG-411, asking for pizza, and then ordering the type of pizza you want by talking to a machine. What becomes interesting, and difficult, is the development of multi-modal, including touch and voice input, interfaces for mobile devices. Voice is not going away.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by phil shinn