Being an NLP guy myself, I think this is a big BIG BIG deal and was really hoping that it would be Apple that would provide a way to hook into the voice recognition interface back when they were talking about their watch. :-(<p>Voice recognition has begun to come to our devices in the most unexpected way. The old way of thinking was that voice recognition would come via a powerful process running on a powerful PC, locally (remember Dragon Naturally Speaking?). In fact, if you look up many US patents re: voice recognition, you will see inventors who explicitly say that it&#x27;s not possible to have voice recognition over a streaming connection.<p>Today, the easiest way to access free voice recognition is in your Chrome browser, with Google only very recently bringing Speech to Text to the Mac version (they&#x27;ve had Text To Speech for a while, I think). Firefox&#x27;s bringing it out real soon and MS is... well... I dunno. They&#x27;ve got Cortana and Satya Nadella recently enjoyed using it so much that he probably doesn&#x27;t want his users to have anything else :-) .<p>The unintended side-effect of this slow creeping of voice recognition tech into our devices is that it&#x27;s gonna spawn a whole host of Medium articles on Design and I&#x27;m probably gonna have to subscribe to them to have some artist tell me how users would like to use my tech :-(