Voice

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22 statements about Voice, every show

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Greze: Conversational voice will be incredible in two to three years
“I mean, voice. Voice is so obvious. It's, I mean, it's happening right now, but it's not voice like you just speak to it. I just mean conversational.”
Jean-Denis Greze Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 50:06 Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Garry Tan: Next computing form factor will clearly be voice and memory
“I think in the short term it'll probably keep looking like the way it is, but it seems inconceivable that it'll stay that form factor. Like, it's pretty clearly going to be voice. I think there's a lot around memory.”
Garry Tan Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 41:48 Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
SOURCERY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fox: Voice AI became reliable data capture only in the past year
“Like for the first time probably ever in the past year, it's like a reliable form of data capture.”
Dylan Fox Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 19:12 AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fox: Voice will augment, not replace, screens over the next couple years
“And so I don't think that means that computers are just going to be like a screen and you just talk to it, because actually we'd get tired of talking, but I think it's going to be a dimension that's added to everything, and so that over the next couple years w…”
Dylan Fox Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 21:30 AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
SAASTR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tavakoli: Voice interfaces will soon replace click-and-drag BI tools
“I think most people naturally believe that interface is going to go to voice, right? I think it's voice. And so clicking and dragging and dropping like BI tools, like I clicked here, I did that. I think that part is going away.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 15:39 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
NEON SHOW Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ambati: Voice will be the frontier interface for interacting with AI
“Voice to me is still going to be the frontier through which people will interact with AI.”
Vamshi Ambati Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 28:14 94% CAGR: What the Inference Boom means for your AI costs | Vamshi Ambati
20VC Opinion
Acharya: Chat and dynamic UIs are overstated in consumer AI
“I think, so voice is amazing for enterprise. I think that one dynamic UIs and two chat UIs are overstated in consumer.”
Anish Acharya Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 20:36 a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
McDermott: AI can automate 80-100% of text support, but voice is unready
“If it's an easy landscape and we can cover the API estate with what we have, you could really get to 80 or a hundred percent depending on where you want to go. So as of today, it's all there. I think voice isn't quite there, and that's it.”
Adrian McDermott Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 25:28 Zendesk's Adrian McDermott: AI's Customer Service Potential, Adoption Cycle, Scale vs. Orchestration
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rajpal: Most AI audio applications are a 'voice sandwich' around text
“I think like most audio applications today are like a text sandwich, or sorry, a voice sandwich with like kind of text in the middle.”
Shreya Rajpal Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 19:21 ⚡️Snowglobe: Simulations for your AI
WE LIVE TO BUILD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weldon: Voice is going to be the ultimate AI agent interface
“You're actually going to be, voice is going to be the last interface. That's going to be the ultimate interface.”
Jim Weldon Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 3:47 He Named His Agents and Gave One a Team of Five
a16z Opinion
Anish Acharya: Voice is the primary AI insertion point for the enterprise
“It feels like voice is the AI insertion point for the enterprise period.”
Anish Acharya Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 23:06 The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
TBPN Opinion
Voice Interfaces Fail for Ambient AI Due to Social Awkwardness
“I actually don't like voice as a medium that much for most things. If it actually wants to integrate into your life effortlessly, I don't want to be in the middle of conversation with you and be like, what's the guy on the left's name. It's super awkward. It's…”
Aiden Smith May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:48:38 We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Up to 75% of Future UX Interfaces Will Be Voice-Driven
“UX is going to be, you know, 50%, 60%, 75% voice in the future. I a hundred percent believe that, and I did not believe that, you know, two years ago, but the trend line is just really, I think, clear.”
Kwindla Hultman Kramer May 6, 2025 ▶ 20:24 Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bosworth: Direct manipulation interfaces will persist alongside voice AI
“I think voice is probably not the only piece of it. Voice and text are part of it. I'm sure there will still be a lot of very direct manipulation interfaces for a long time to come.”
Andrew Bosworth Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 21:25 Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
Riley Brown: Using voice dictation puts AI composers into a deeper flow state
“You get in a deeper flow state when you use your voice.”
Riley Brown Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 1:12:26 Let’s build a social app with AI in 100 min (v0, Cursor AI, Replit, Claude AI)
MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated
Guo: Fine-tuning to specific voices is AI writing's next major unlock
“I think the next level of like value and impact is definitely going to be fine tuning to specific voice.”
Sarah Guo Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 39:28 10 AI Business Ideas From The Queen of AI ft. Sarah Guo
WTF Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mayya: Enterprise software interfaces will become voice-first
“So I think eventually the future of all these is going to be voice.”
Varun Mayya May 14, 2023 ▶ 1:18:21 Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
a16z Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2022
Chen: Algorithms can predict skin cancer from selfies and depression from voice
“We can use selfies to predict skin cancer. We can use changes in your voice to predict depression or on early onset Alzheimer's.”
Frank Chen Dec 30, 2019 ▶ 19:36 Imagining Our Future Through Tech
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen predicts voice audio, not visuals, will be the foundation of AR
“Yeah, I think actually I'd go so far as to say it may be the case that voice actually is the key to the AR world. Like voice may be the thing. Voice may actually be the foundation of the whole thing.”
Marc Andreessen Dec 12, 2019 ▶ 11:50 Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
20VC Opinion
Kaden: Voice and VR remain far from consumer adoption tipping points
“There are new platforms if you think about something like voice or VR, but we're pretty far from those consumer adoption tipping points, or so it seems.”
Rebecca Kaden Oct 1, 2018 ▶ 7:04 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
Dunn: Divesting removes an institutional investor's voice and proxy influence
“If you divest, you don't have a voice.”
Jim Dunn Sep 4, 2017 ▶ 48:19 Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
20VC Prediction Held up
Flynn: Major tech providers will adopt voice to extend their brands
“Ultimately, I don't think it's going to be just these unique applications for voice, but I think, you know, many of the large technology providers today that are on mobile, that are on the web will want to use voice as a way to extend their brand with their cu…”
Sean Flynn Jul 27, 2016 ▶ 22:05 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures

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