Spotify isn't doing anything unique here, and it's not really a marketing campaign to explain away their UI. It's more of a showcase for hiring professionals, developers/designers/etc. Facebook has a similar one -> https://design.facebook.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

Also, read anything published by Design @ Facebook. Source: about 3 years ago

- Google Asistant - https://developers.google.com/assistant. Source: over 1 year ago

Google Assistant: This great phone assistant by Google can be your writer, personal caller, or voice-operated interface that you can access from each app to do everything with voice. Source: almost 2 years ago

There are tons of resources online you just need to search. I would start here tho: https://developers.google.com/assistant. Source: over 2 years ago

As this trend continues we are starting to see bigger companies help developers implement these types of features. Amazon offers Transcribe, an automatic speed recognition (ASR) service that enables developers to add speech to text functionality to their applications. Google has Actions, which allows developers to build voice into their own products. I see this trend continuing in the future as more developers try... - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

Well, it isn't stupid, it's enthusiasthic ;) You can consider yourself an innovator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations#Adopter_categories Anyway, as you are a fellow coder, I recommend you to try https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt (it works even from the phone with termux), and https://developers.google.com/assistant (to develop self custom actions). Source: about 3 years ago