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How Voice Assistants Change Family Communication

I use voice commands for everything now and my eight-year-old has started talking to me the same way she talks to Alexa.

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What we've seen

Conversational interfaces model transactional rather than relational ways of speaking, subtly altering human interaction patterns.

Worth thinking about

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