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Most voice assistants can work with simple phrases like that. Alexa, lights on. Hey Google, thermostat 70 degrees.

• gnicholas 3y ago
  Not Siri, which thinks I'm talking to her all the time when I'm speaking to a family member whose name contains neither an "s" nor an "r".
  • hgsgm 3y ago
    That's because letters aren't sounds.
    • gnicholas 3y ago
      Way to jump to unjustified conclusions. The name also doesn’t contain either sound.
• setr 3y ago
  The problem is that’s not the only format they work on, and because input format is largely unconstrained, when they misunderstand, they catastrophically misunderstand. It’s just like the image recognition ML issue, where it can correctly predict a cat, but change a specific three pixels and it has 99% confidence it’s an ostrich. Or JavaScript equality. If you do it right, it’s right, but otherwise anything goes. Or Perl, in its entirety