Never.

Until I receivd my Mycroft Mark II, it was incredibly rare. So, my daily is a very recent development.

many of the lights and a few other things in my house work mostly or only by voice, and I use the assistant for a few other things pretty regularly.

almost exclusively Siri on my watch for setting timers and reminders (the two things for which I find the native iOS interface almost unusably frustrating).

only when I'm driving

using Megalodon, I could have selected multiple answers, but I decided against it.

rarely, but I do sometimes use it to control my Hue lights, reduce the tv volume, or finding my phone.

Kinda mandatory to use Android Auto or Apple CarPlay if you have it here in Ohio now. It’s the best way to not get ticketed under the distracted driving laws. Those are primary offenses now in my state. Using those via voice is kinda sorta the most legally compliant way to do so.

Where is the "Never"? Implied in the "or less"?

answered “several times per week” but if the question meant “successfully got what I wanted from the voice assistant” rather than “attempted to use the voice assistant” that answer would drop to less than weekly (but more than monthly).

never.

Daily/several times per week: primarily for setting timers when cooking and adding reminders, and very occasionally to make phone calls when my phone isn't easily accessible and I have my earbuds in.

Even more occasionally: to answer questions (often fails to understand the question or give a relevant answer) or to do conversions when content - mostly American - fails to provide metric values (this is an area where voice assistance shines).

on purpose, only when driving. I disable them as much as possible.

I'm effectively "never" for the reasons one might guess, but the accessibility affordances aren't lost on me.

So, it's not just for others' sake I keep a look out for autonomy-respecting developments since it's not hard to imagine losing the privilege that allows me to reject it for now.

only for the audio system in my car.

Only when driving. And then mostly for texting (only a quick one eay “I’m leaving now” or similar) or to initiate a phone call.

all all day, every day. Reminders, timers, lights, and especially adding things to my Grocery list as I use them up.

I mean, never, ever.

I've gone with "monthly" becuause that's how often I intentionally interject while a loved one is using one, to mess with them.

@GamePlayer that's less than monthly

@OkieSpaceQueen this feels like a business opportunity

Where's the option for "have never used, will never use"?

I refuse to believe anyone has ever used those things

I go to aggressive amounts of trouble to ensure I never, *ever* have my voice recorded by a voice assistant, but it is true that every three months I accidentally activate a voice assistant some product doesn't allow you to turn off anyway. Like maybe a remote control has a voice assistant button you can't deactivate and I press it by accident. So I guess "monthly or less" is technically accurate.

Timers when cooking, controlling smart lights, and poorly transcribed reminders when on the go. I don’t trust them to do anything else.

Never. It is designed to let Google spy on you even more.

other: never.
I disable voice assistants in any device that I end up owning or using. Even from the smart tv.

literally never (and yes i picked "monthly or less" i just wanted to register my hatred for voice assistants

I would have been on the nearly never until I inadvertently discovered Cortona built in function to the Outlook App. Now I can spend 2 hours less a day at the office by reading my email and replying on my commute to/from.

never? Intentionally, anyways. It's generally faster to just type in whatever, once you account for inevitable errors, mis-transcription, etc.

I might use it more in a car setting, if I felt inclined to take or place calls in a car (and so couldn't reasonably use my hands), but that's pretty much it.

on my phone, only while driving and rarely even then. At home, constantly (Alexa for kitchen timers, weather, local store hours, cooking measurement conversions, smart home control, etc).

Voted "Daily" with the caveat that it is only ever "set a timer for 4 minutes" (how long I steep my tea).

Zero other uses.

Does "set a timer for 7 minutes" count as using a voice assistant?

no option for never?

literally never! I do not need a snitch appliance.

I have microphones disabled or apps disallowed permissions to microphones and anything else I can possibly deny them.

I find it most useful for checking the weather or setting timers. I will also sometimes ask it questions about random crap I want to know, with varying degrees of success.

I have never used one, but there seems to be no option for that.

i used to before i got more serious about digital hygiene, and at the time i used it exclusively for setting events/timers/reminders and maybe navigating. nowadays i would never, they don't really even have appeal to me. i would like something that just does events and timers and reminders and isn't a bid for total control of my life, but. i odn't think it's going to happen.

interesting reading the comments here. I wonder if “always on” or manually activated could have been broken out somehow.

When I was on iPhone and had to cope with Siri - never. It was sooo terrible at recognition.

Google is faultless and actually speaks an answer rather than just shoving out a web page.