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I have alexa and we use it CONSTANTLY as a timer for our kid. You have 2 minutes in timeout. Boom alexa does it. I can take him to timeout and get that start

by bargl 10y ago

I have alexa and we use it CONSTANTLY as a timer for our kid. You have 2 minutes in timeout. Boom alexa does it. I can take him to timeout and get that started at the same time. It also makes it so that I'm not saying when he gets out but a device is saying when he gets out. He doesn't tend to argue with Alexa but he will argue (negotiate) with me so it helps in that way. I also use it to play music and read books to me. In the future I'm going to set it up to work with my smart home, but I haven't set that up because we're selling our house. Was it worth the price point? No, but now that I have it it's become part of my daily life.

dmix 10y ago
That's quite a brilliant use case. This is why I believe chat bots and by proxy voice assistants like this will be standard technology, despite the risks (having an always on microphone is not entirely necessary). There are probably thousands of these niche use cases that we haven't thought of because these are new interface form factors. Tons of opportunity for innovation/products here. The only downside (besides the need for server voice processing) is that you are building a company on a platform. The whole Twitter and Facebook platform debacles showed the risks of trusting your business life support to a bigger indifferent company - who may just steal your idea and implement it.
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