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I'd love to see a voice platform which decouples functions from phrases, allowing a community of "command makers" to create their own deeply customized commands

I'd love to see a voice platform which decouples functions from phrases, allowing a community of "command makers" to create their own deeply customized commands. I'm not convinced the developer of an app or service is necessarily the best suited to be crafting the voice experience. Give power users who actually interact with the thing on a daily basis a decent tool to do some tailoring between your API and your audience, and they'll fix your crappy edge cases and produce more useful interactions. Now add a mechanism to discover and proliferate the best of breed results. It's similar to how Apple or Google create the mobile platform, but 3rd party developers are the ones who really understand the needs of a particular group of users.

Nextgrid 7y ago
Most people barely know how to use basic features of their tools and can't be bothered to spend 30 minutes exploring them, do you really expect them to spend time researching & testing custom commands to improve their voice assistants?
- rkagerer 7y ago
  You raise a great point. I don't expect most people to. But I know some power users who would. And I suspect a huge library of human-crafted commands would be more useful than (or at least compliment) a mediocre AI. Back before there were better alternatives, I reverse engineered the protocol for a common Wifi RGB LED controller and glued it to the Alexa Skills API. Amazon has a great developer tool for training your own verbs and syntax. Unfortunately, all your vocabulary needs to be prefixed. So instead of saying "Turn my yard light red", I had to say "Tell Sparky to turn my yard light red".