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No joke, part of me believes that bathrooms (and kitchens, to a lesser degree) are the first places voice-controlled smart home tech will really take off. My pl
by culturestate 8y ago
No joke, part of me believes that bathrooms (and kitchens, to a lesser degree) are the first places voice-controlled smart home tech will really take off. My place is about as smart as it can be today but it's still mostly a novelty.
Once people can perform actually useful tasks with their voice - "hey siri, turn the shower on to 40 degrees" or "alexa, preheat the oven to 300" - while their hands are full doing something else it'll kickstart the whole field.
- julienreszka 8y agoThis sounds dangerous.
- culturestate 8y agoHow so? The device could always require confirmation for hazardous commands - "are you sure you want me to turn the oven on?" Most already do this for e.g. deleting calendar appointments anyway.
- julienreszka 8y agoThis could be hacked and burn you.
- culturestate 8y agoI mean....there will be a future in which voice data is processed locally rather than in the cloud. Nobody said this stuff has to be connected to the internet.
- julienreszka 8y agoRight, I don't know if NSA and other agencies will allow this kind of future but who knows, you might be right after all.
- gourou 8y agoSnips' home assistant does local processing https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/ https://www.home-assistant.io/components/snips/
- culturestate 8y agoOooh, thanks for the heads up - I've been playing around with HA but hadn't seen this component. I'll check it out.