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>>flocia+(OP)
Former CS major, current chef/owner checking in. Restaurants feel pretty ripe for voice assistants/AR but unfortunately lack the necessary technological and financial capital to make it happen, imo. Being able to record and retrieve important information without stopping your work (pulling up and scaling a recipe while chopping onions, for example) saves an immense amount of time in the kitchen. This is especially true during a busy service when circumstances and priorities can change quickly and without warning. The need is there, my question lies in whether an industry with tight profit margins can afford to pay for such a product.

>>ohnoab+qx
Not a chef or anything, but wouldn't reliability be absolutely necessary with no mistake whatsoever? I mean, when I ask alexa to play a song, and she gives me the wrong one, it's cute. If in a restaurant you order 500 kilos of flower instead of 500 kilos of flour, that's more problematic (except maybe on valentine's day). Same goes for any sort of vocal "note" you would like to make. if it has to be absolutely reliable, I gotta think that voice recognition is not there yet.

>>iraldi+jA
This is very true. To combat the problem right now, I have some of my own logic in the middle to correct common misappropriations. I also have a small HUD-like tablet that shows me whatever I'm working on so I can see that the info went in correctly. Your point is still correct: the tech isn't quite there yet to do it without these other pieces.