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When I watched the Google Home video from the I/O event, I cringed very hard. And I am not a skeptic: I generally am a believer in new tech, in natural language tech, etc., but that video looked really goofy and improbable. Do they really think that families are going to change their morning routines to interact via voice with a device? Just the "Hello Google" command is awkward enough, people aren't going to walk down the street while talking nerdy Google commands out loud. I don't see it happening.

And from a foreign language speaker standpoint, I find it even harder to imagine. In Spanish there is not really a consensus about how to pronounce 'Google'. I can't imagine people on the streets speaking Googlish.

On the other hand, everyone googles, for sure, everyone uses search and mobile. I have the feeling that these two interactions -text/type search and mobile- are too hard to improve on. I don't think voice has a chance to become bigger than text.

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Have you observed anyone interact with Alexa? I have, and it seems like people really love it. So, is there a big difference between Alexa and Google Home that you find dealbreaking, or do you challenge the notion that Alexa has been successful?

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I haven't. I would like to try it out, maybe I will check the browser emulation they released a couple of weeks ago. I would like to try it both in English and Spanish and compare the experiences.