Has voice control finally started speaking our language ?

The problem with using the human voice to control computers is well known and well documented: it doesn't always work. You can find yourself adopting the aggressive tone of a belligerent tourist in a foreign land while digital assistants employ a range of apologetic responses ("I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that", "I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question"). We throw our arms up and complain about their shortcomings. Plenty of us have tried them, plenty of us have dismissed them as a waste of time. We tend not to hear about them doing the job perfectly well, because few people write impassioned tweets or blog posts about things that work flawlessly.