@BaiowulfScott Using the keyboard mic just dictates text into the search bar. A voice ordering concept actually understands the intent to add items to your cart and navigate the app for you! Two very different things.
Nikita is right on the human verification part for businesses.
Helped design an agent that did just this, (on the business side) the idea was to automatically approve low-risk profiles and escalate high-risk ones for human review. Your rules engine will make all the difference.
Are invisible interfaces coming?
Google JUST announced Gemini 3.8 Live. It can talk through a task with you, then keep working after the conversation ends.
I think 90%+ of vertical SaaS will need a voice front door.
By that I mean the way you use the software becomes talking to it, and the typing, clicking, and form filling happens on the other side without you.
So a contractor standing on a job site just says what went wrong out loud.
And by the time he's back in the truck, the quote is sent, inventory is checked, the CRM is updated, the customer got a text, and anything risky is flagged for him.
Kinda the dream, right?
The same thing works for nurses, dispatchers, recruiters, brokers, insurance agents etc. The person talks and the agent finishes the admin.
Lots of opportunities here to build voice-first businesses (been thinking about this more and more).
I think this is how vertical software becomes invisible.
Nobody logs in, nobody fills out a form, and nobody learns your interface.
You just talk, and the work gets done behind you.
This is a glimpse of where SaaS is going. Not fully there yet but it's coming.
Invisible interfaces.
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