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I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will st

by tmzt 9y ago

I choose Amazon for this because they are dedicated to it, it's a contributor to thei e-commerce business, and there is plenty of reason to believe they will still work a few years from now. I have no such belief with Google in this case, it's one hobby among many disconnected from their main business. It is search but not web search. I'm also building a snips.co device and am very interested in offline speach recognition both for pricacy and utility reasons.

johansch 9y ago
Google not serious/dedicated about voice-based search? I can buy the argument that they are not as dedicated as Amazon when it comes to selling stuff via voice, but search via voice? They have been at it for like a decade already.
untog 9y ago
Google has voice-based functionality pretty deeply embedded into Android - I really don't think it's going anywhere. By contrast, I chose a Google Home over an Alexa because I think Google is better at AI - I am consistently surprised by how many random questions the Home can answer.
- Klathmon 9y ago
  Yeah, Google is really throwing their weight behind "AI". It seems like it's the most likely candidate that could eventually replace search as their "main product".
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msabalau 9y ago
Like Amazon stuck with their phone?
Nilef 9y ago
What hardware are you using with Snips?
- tmzt 9y ago
  Pi 3 and a USB mic, I'd like to do the full build but am focused on other projects.
SriniK 9y ago
As a dad, my killer app on Google Home is playing youtube audio/video. Alexa can't match it. Then almost all the integrations I care are already available on Google Home - Smarthings and Nest. I tried multiple times playing Alexa, it doesn't come close to Google Home's voice recognition capabilities.
tmzt 9y ago
Well, first, this is my opinion. I do agree that they are dedicated to AI and voice and will make that central to their search offerings. What I haven't seen from them is dedication to one particular version or variation of anything for more than a few years. It was Google Talk, then what Hangouts, and now Hello, which is also how you talk to bots, but if you want to talk to the Assistant, that's OK, Google. I don't want hardware were the API is just shutdown because they 'retired' this and went on to something new. The YouTube use-case sounds useful, particularly with Chromecast, and I wish I could do that with Alexa, but then giants must always butt heads. As far as snips, I prefer to have more control of this type of solution, but building-your-own-airplane takes time that $50 on an Echo Dot does not. (Google had no similarly priced offering at that time.)

by tmzt 9y ago

johansch 9y ago

Google not serious/dedicated about voice-based search? I can buy the argument that they are not as dedicated as Amazon when it comes to selling stuff via voice, but search via voice? They have been at it for like a decade already.

untog 9y ago

Google has voice-based functionality pretty deeply embedded into Android - I really don't think it's going anywhere. By contrast, I chose a Google Home over an Alexa because I think Google is better at AI - I am consistently surprised by how many random questions the Home can answer.

Klathmon 9y ago
Yeah, Google is really throwing their weight behind "AI". It seems like it's the most likely candidate that could eventually replace search as their "main product".
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msabalau 9y ago

Like Amazon stuck with their phone?

Nilef 9y ago

What hardware are you using with Snips?

tmzt 9y ago
Pi 3 and a USB mic, I'd like to do the full build but am focused on other projects.

SriniK 9y ago

As a dad, my killer app on Google Home is playing youtube audio/video. Alexa can't match it. Then almost all the integrations I care are already available on Google Home - Smarthings and Nest. I tried multiple times playing Alexa, it doesn't come close to Google Home's voice recognition capabilities.

tmzt 9y ago

Well, first, this is my opinion. I do agree that they are dedicated to AI and voice and will make that central to their search offerings. What I haven't seen from them is dedication to one particular version or variation of anything for more than a few years. It was Google Talk, then what Hangouts, and now Hello, which is also how you talk to bots, but if you want to talk to the Assistant, that's OK, Google. I don't want hardware were the API is just shutdown because they 'retired' this and went on to something new. The YouTube use-case sounds useful, particularly with Chromecast, and I wish I could do that with Alexa, but then giants must always butt heads. As far as snips, I prefer to have more control of this type of solution, but building-your-own-airplane takes time that $50 on an Echo Dot does not. (Google had no similarly priced offering at that time.)