Full-duplex voice assistants with life-wide context could replace many phone tasks
willccbb · x · 2026-07-29
The post argues that the most broadly useful version of voice AI will be a single-stream, full-duplex assistant with deep context about your life.
It also warns that once voice models and hardware improve enough, this could become powerful enough to replace the phone for many small tasks — which the author says would be transformative, but also disruptive enough to “oneshot everybody.”
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