I can sympathize with the dislike of voice assistance as they are pretty universally crap. But recording yourself monologuing and having it AI transcribed can feel really natural.
I still default to typing, but whenever I'm feeling writers block, I'll just start thinking out loud and record it to get started and it works quite nicely.
Yeah I'm not sure if I'm just weird or what, but from the start with voice assistants I've been utterly confused that people want to talk to machines using a shitty interface and broadcasting to others what they are doing (not even talking about the NSA, just people in my vicinity). Imagine being in my room, saying out loud each URL I wanted to visit. It feels as cringy as if instead of turning a page silently in a book while I'm sitting in my room reading, I would instead disrupt that silence and focus by telling the book "TURN PAGE". That's how it feels to me when I hear someone say "OKAY GOOGLE", I almost physically recoil.
It's like you have a nice silent interface that will be perfectly interpreted, and decide instead to be loud and imprecise and have to guess if the machine is going to understand you. I think maybe rather than cringy another word would be that it feels in bad taste. It's half about the "style" and half about the lack of "function" of the medium. It's effectively worse in terms of reliability and you look like someone that doesn't know how to use a computer all at the same time.
I suppose it'll take another generation before people start to wonder why everyone used to hunch over a computer "in the old days"
I was reading the parent of your post as using these speech-to-text tools for dictation, not for interaction. I think they can be quite useful for dictation (if they can interpret your voice well).
Physically recoil in fact, like a bitter taste in my mouth.
However, as opposed to some assistant turning imaginary 'pages' in .epub, sitting alone in focused dictation is a really great way to explore your mind and have free roaming thought processes.
It is also not new in any sense, e.g., Dostoyevsky dictated The Idiot to a stenographer.
It suddenly stopped working on my phone. Somehow without my explicit direction it has switched to "Hey Google".
Even though my usage of smartphone is minimal something like "Hey Google ... Drive to 3 Bullshit Ave" is very convenient and causes zero sensory recoil. But I do not live my life on the phone either.