I'd have expected speech recognition software to be good enough that you could have direct speech -> gpt type services. It almost feels like traveling to the past when asking things of Siri when I otherwise get very useful responses from chatgpt.
If you say "Buy a two by four" the transcription goes from
Buy
Buy a
Buy a two
Buy a two by
Buy a 2 x 4
For
Four inches
Four inches by
4" by 3
4" by 3"
The issue is that when going to GPT, that's going to cost someone a few pennies each time a request is made. When that's scaled up to the installed base of all Macs and iDevices that gets expensive fast.