India is the world's fastest growing consumer of voice traffic. At this point 30% of all google searches in India are voice and growing.
The fact that we have over 20 mainstream languages contributes to this. a lot of people now write Indian vernacular in Latin script which is highly unstandardised in spelling.
Voice is potentially superior only for a set of unambiguous questions - e.g. the temperature outside and that is assuming that the recognition part works.
most people are not using for "knowledge base" kind of questions. they are using it for typical google search usecases where the results are often returned in text ...or more preferably video.
India is the world's fastest growing consumer of voice traffic. At this point 30% of all google searches in India are voice and growing.
The fact that we have over 20 mainstream languages contributes to this. a lot of people now write Indian vernacular in Latin script which is highly unstandardised in spelling.
Voice is far far superior.