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To me, there are 3 areas where voice user interfaces fail quite well at: - being able to spell out a word that is not understood (mainly for proper names) - t
by jiehong 6y ago
To me, there are 3 areas where voice user interfaces fail quite well at:
- being able to spell out a word that is not understood (mainly for proper names)
- teach new commands vocally (hey assistant, when I say “hit it”, actually play that song and turn the lights of the living room on)
- being able to understand words in a different language as part of the sentence.
That one makes Alexa quite a pain to use in some countries. For example, if Alexa is set to French and you wanna listen to an English song, you then need to make sure the title of the song is pronounced with a french accent, otherwise it won’t get it. The same is true if Alexa is set to English and you ask for a French or Chinese song title.
It makes it so frustrating that it’s unusable.
- galoisgirl 6y agoYup. My friend drives a bike and would sometimes like Maps to navigate him to his street, Włodarzewska. Good luck.
- thaeli 6y agoI just want to be able to spell things out with the NATO alphabet, same way I would talking to a human. This applies the other way around to - please, some satnav app, give me the option of the directions reading out as "take exit 52 Bravo" instead of "take exit 52bee". (To me, 52bee and 53 sound way too similar, and require a screen glance to disambiguate!) I would switch apps for that feature, so long as the navigation was at least okay and it still read out street names.
- maxerickson 6y agoYou could likely customize Osmand to do this. The announcements are assembled using JavaScript and it is straightforward to add a new script. https://yingtongli.me/blog/2020/01/25/osmand.html https://yingtongli.me/blog/2020/01/25/osmand.html does it to customize something else.