Dennis H. Lewis explains how voice input can set an app apart by making interaction feel less effortful than typing. He uses a pizza shop example to show how speaking to an app sparks more engagement than text-based chat, and notes that most websites still don't offer this feature.
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It's not always about just building your bubble applications like you've already always built them. Okay? We have so many new opportunities, so many new tools, so many new things to integrate with. The smallest little things that you do can make you stand out. It's like, you know, boxing in the heavyweights, you know, against a heavyweight, when you're a lightweight, it's a real advantage to be able to say, oh, yeah, oh yeah, we built this, you know, whatever it is. But, oh, and by the way, you can talk to it now. Suddenly it's like, oh, I can talk to it now. You've got, you've got a curiosity thing there as well. I want to see that. And look, let's face it, you can't talk to a WordPress website. You can't talk to a Webflow website. People are probably getting tired of chatting with chatbots. I know I am. And sometimes, you know, you just don't know. You sit there and you say, okay, now I've got to write this great response so the AI will understand me. And it takes time. It takes time and it takes effort and you get stuck and you maybe just go away and don't complete the task. Whereas if you can just hit a button and say, okay, look, this is my business problem. I've got a, you know, a pizza shop that needs to serve more pepperoni and I'm living in this. My pizza shop is set up in a vegan neighborhood. How do I solve this problem? And, you know, you already know your problem, so you just tell the AI that and then it can come back and either give you a great response or it can give you a shitty response. You never know. But what is clear is that it's, you've made it easier for your users. And if you've made the experience more engaging, more fun for your user, that's going to make you stand out.
