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Didn't mean to use marketing-speak. When I said conversational, I meant that our app talks to the user, waits for a reply from the user, then does that cycle a
by sskates 15y ago
Didn't mean to use marketing-speak.
When I said conversational, I meant that our app talks to the user, waits for a reply from the user, then does that cycle again, like Siri does. There are a lot of other ways to do voice interaction, like voice actions does (you press a button and then talk and then something pops up) or Vlingo (where the interaction is mostly hands free, but sometimes requires you to press a button).
I'm also serious that we thought that people wouldn't understand the differences between us and Siri. I'm not talking about people commenting on HN, I'm talking about someone who casually hears about our app as a "voice app" from a friend, or who glances at the headline on TechCrunch. The differences are in the details of the execution, and they can be subtle, especially if you haven't gotten a chance to use both apps and do a comparison on how they perform at texting-while-driving.