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A NLP text interface basically for everything I interact with either on a computer or my mobile. I doubt I'll ever use a voice based tool like Siri or its' equivalents, but I'd really like to type in commands I'd like to issue rather than click around an UI.

It feels error prone and isn't always very accessible as I'm motorically a bit challenged although definitely not disabled.

I simply adore applications that let me invoke commands through text like the command palette in vscode or Sketch Runner in Sketch. This is also why I'm a heavy CLI user and spend a lot of time customising my aliases and work flows. I'd like to extend this outside of the terminal.

You can set Siri on a Mac to accept text and turn off voice responses, then trigger it with a keyboard shortcut. Works pretty well and much faster than the voice controls.

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