The feature is not obviously "ridiculous", it's made for a very sound reason, which is the inability to display any text messages when the Toolbar icon is not active so, if a user closed the menu, it didn't get *any* feedback (text or audio) from GSX, and that might be very confusing, especially for new users, who might assume GSX has a "bug" and it seems "stuck", but only because it's waiting for some action, with no way for the user to know that.
We'll add an option to disable it, but I think it should always play the voice, when the toolbar icon is not active because, again, there would be no other way to communicate with the user in that case, the only alternative would be a non-standard overlaid message, which won't work in VR, for example.