When I first started tinkering with computers “back in the day,” the idea of “hands‑free” interaction was pure fantasy (literal “Star Trek” material.) This was true even with the natural language database querying feature in Symantec’s “Q&A” product in the 1990’s — you could ask the “Assistant” free form questions about your data, but this still required stopping what you were otherwise doing to compose and type.
There is one idea which has remained a constant throughout my entire IT industry career: My hands and my time have always been my two most precious resources. Whenever I’m in the middle of something — it doesn’t matter what that “something” is (even another project requiring my attention and typing) — using the keyboard to access these new AI resources is a bottleneck.
The moment I have to pause and switch context to focus elsewhere just to hammer out another prompt for an LLM, every single time I feel that tiny — but nagging — friction. This is ultimately why I developed AverVOX (Latin-esque for “Open Voice”) — initially the OSS release and then Pro.
I invite you to check them out and free up your hands! – Carl
