Exactly. A textbook example of using first principles for reasoning rather than just saying 'The cost of implementing this system vs paying a teenager minimum wage makes it not worth' - the equivalent of cavemen reasoning.
Just a tangent, fans are obssessed with certain artists, say, TSwift, because of their personality rather than pure voice and lyrics. That's why concerts are so fucking popular.
But how is an hardware version of a mic/speaker anything interesting? The humane AI pin, to which you wear and gets contextual data, is the only wearable of interest to hackers.