The State of Voice Interactions on Android

Android has provided Speech Recognition APIs and Voice Actions for several years. Then, the Google Assistant came in and allowed us to integrate with it using App Actions. Also, several third party solutions exist and can work not only for Android but also for iOS, the web and IoT devices. In the era of Cloud APIs, Gemini, LLMs, GenAI and privacy concerns, are voice interactions easier, more interesting and more useful for our users? Or is it the other way around? What new challenges are we facing and how can we solve them? Come to this talk to and we'll go together through the exciting path of voice interactions on Android!