Fifteen years ago, the concept of using your voice to control a computer or phone was little more than a background project for many of the big names in software development. For the general public, it was basically science fiction. In TV show Friends, which was in its heyday at this time, a millionaire software developer jokes to Monica about a future in which computers will be able to understand us saying ‘do my homework’, or ‘clean my room’, but won’t actually be able to do any of those things. Monica responds with a silly voice: ‘Will it be able [...]