According to this NYTimes article, voice-activated technology has been around in smartphones for years. People could easily dictate their text messages or appointments aloud. Now with the Apple’s Siri (introduced fall 2011) the voice technology is much more sophisticated and owners are eager to put it to use.
Siri owners can dictate e-mails, including stating which punctuation and emoticons they want, and when they ask their phone "for the meaning of life," it responds with an, "'I find it odd you would ask this of an inanimate object.'"
Technology executives say that voice technology is here to stay because they help people become "more productive"--which means that we can expect to see more people talking to their iPhones rather than on their iPhones. Ah, the good old days when people just texted in silence.
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