Fox: In five years, kids will expect all devices to understand voice
Dylan Fox · AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume · Jul 31, 2026 · at 24:42
Dylan Fox, founder and CEO of AssemblyAI, describes the generational shift toward ubiquitous ambient voice computing across consumer electronics and robotics.
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“Across humanoid robots, consumer electronics, like, you're gonna see voice as this dimension that you just, like, expect And what, the example I think about is, you know, when you see pictures of, like, kids, like, trying to, like, swipe on TVs or something, because they just expect everything as a touch screen. I think it's going to be similar where, you know, in, like, five years, kids are just going to, like, talk at things, expecting them to be able to understand them.”
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