Beyond Prompting: How Voice Will Define the Future of AI

Author(s): Yaksh Birla

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Remember when we thought the pinnacle of AI interaction was crafting the perfect text prompt? Well, buckle up all you “prompt engineers”, because what comes next isn’t just your AI assistant reading between the lines — it’s speaking them out loud.

For the last 2–3 years, we’ve been hammering away at our keyboards, trying to coax the perfect response from our AI companions. Entire companies and jobs were created with the sole purpose of mastering “prompt engineering”. And don’t mistake me — it is very useful. AI systems still need structure to generate desired outputs, so prompt engineering is not going anywhere.

But let’s face it, typing is so last decade. People are impatient. Most people aren’t wired to be prompt engineers.

People are wired to speak.

The real revolution is happening right now, and it’s all about voice. Large companies are investing billions to abstract away the need for prompt engineering and create more intuitive human-AI interactions. As Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, prophesizes:

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