Automatically adapting user interfaces for hands-free interaction

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

• automatically, without user input and without regard to whether a digital assistant application has been separately invoked by a user, determining that the electronic device is in a vehicle;
• and
• responsive to the determining:
• automatically invoking a listening mode of a virtual assistant implemented by the electronic device, wherein the listening mode causes the electronic device to automatically, without a physical input from the user, listen for voice input from the user for a predetermined time after the electronic device provides an auditory output;
• receiving a voice input from the user;
• and
• concurrently providing both an auditory output and a visual output on a display screen of the electronic device based on the voice input, wherein at least one of the auditory output and the visual output paraphrases the voice input.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
• automatically, without user input and without regard to whether a digital assistant application has been separately invoked by a user, determining that the electronic device is in a vehicle;
• and
• responsive to the determining:
• automatically invoking a listening mode of a virtual assistant implemented by the electronic device, wherein the listening mode causes the electronic device to automatically, without a physical input from the user, listen for voice input from the user for a predetermined time after the electronic device provides an auditory output;
• receiving a voice input from the user;
• and
• concurrently providing both an auditory output and a visual output on a display screen of the electronic device based on the voice input, wherein at least one of the auditory output and the visual output paraphrases the voice input.