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The day when you can just say “lights on, 50%” and the assistant in the next room understands you don’t mean it is when we will have the right amount of univers
by completelylegit 7y ago
The day when you can just say “lights on, 50%” and the assistant in the next room understands you don’t mean it is when we will have the right amount of universal compatibility.
Until we can derive decisions based on who is speaking and where they ”are” - I think it’ll always be clunky.
“Hey Alexa tell Hue to set light scene livingroom to 80%” is cool that it exists for those who really need the solution but its not easier or cool for sure but we’re so far from that.
- lokedhs 7y agoI listen to the Twit podcast, which is usually very good. One thing they do, however, is to stop themselves from saying the word Alexa, and if someone accidentally does so, they beep it out. Why? Because they don't want to set off any so-called smart speakers. I'd argue that going so low as to change the way we speak just to accommodate these devices is quite terrible, and if you have to watch what you say so that a smart speaker don't misunderstand you, then it's not very smart. Their listeners shouldn't complain that their hosts use the word Alexa. They should complain to the vendors that their products are garbage. I wouldn't use one of those even if they weren't garbage, but at least I wouldn't be infuriated every time I hear someone on the podcast stop themselves from saying the name of the product that's the topic of their discussion.
- mcintyre1994 7y agoAccidental Tech Podcast use "Hey Dingus" :)
- FiddlerClamp 7y agoIn our house we refer to Alexa as "Alesto" when we're discussing her.