If so, then what's going to happen to the future of open floor plan offices?
Are NC headphones and Stenomasks the future?
They will now become part of the corporate issued and mandated equipment at open floor plan offices?
Acoustic privacy is has two components. Attenuation is the obvious one. Masking is the one that's not. Controlling rather than minimizing white noise from air-conditioning is the ordinary approach by professionals.
Of course, a lot of open office designs are driven by "taste" rather than judgement informed by experience and science. So you get hard floors and hard ceilings instead of carpet and acoustic tile (it's right in the name, duh) and complaints.
In other words, it's a solved problem. Poor choices aren't.
Voice isn't my main input but the handful of times I voiced something in the middle of an office, I spoke quietly, with a near whisper, into a close mic. It was much quieter than I would normally be able to speak to a coworker.
The one demo'ed in the video is BOYA BY-GM18CU (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF969RVP)
That one captures whispers. I've heard other devices can dictate based on vibrations from your neck/chest.
No. Most of my work involves writing code/commands, troubleshooting, automation, testing etc, across multiple/nested environments and systems. Kinda hard to use voice for all that. Now if I was simply typing a long-as document, then sure voice would make sense, but I really can't see how I can do a sysadmin job with mostly voice input.