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As audio increasingly becomes a platform in-it-of-itself, experiences from the CLI world will become more and more relevant. Because audio as an interface has a lot more in common with the command line than it does with GUIs.

If it doesn't already exist, I could see a serious market for audio-based MUDs.

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It already exists. Modern clients like Mudlet (https://mudlet.org/) support both old (MSP) and modern audio protocols: https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Standards:MUD_Client_Media_Protoco...

There's games like StickMUD that make use of this, too.

that seems to only go one way though.

for a real audio based mud, the players voice input needs to be interpreted as commands but also sent to the other players in the room so you can have real voice based interaction.

Starfinder have done this on Alexa just say "Alexa Play Starfinder"

i wish i could play this on a real computer. not interesting in getting alexa or any other of these 'assistants'

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