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Voice, language and user interfaces
Ep. 49
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The duality between Voice and Visual interfaces basically comes down to age old question of visual communication versus audio communication. “Language need not have started in a spoken modality; sign language may have been the original language. This shift is leading companies to ask the question of whether they should continue to invest in the visual interface or should budgets shift to voice?
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