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by goldensnit 3244 days ago
I think voice controlled apps (on Alexa, Cortana, Siri, google home) will be pretty big.
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Certainly the voice recognition is impressive.

All the regular things I asked Google Assistant were recognised almost perfectly. Andrew Ng talked about the difference between 95% accuracy and 97% accuracy being the massive difference. Google Assistant is at 95% [2], but feels very impressive already.

It felt like going back a decade when trying out the Firefox Voice Fill [0], where trying repeatedly to say the word you want doesn't work (I was trying to search for 'React Router Redirect', which it kept interpreting 'React' as 'Really').

However I think the personality of the assistants are lacking. It doesn't feel like there is any real interaction. Google assistant feels like little more than a better version of Voice Fill.

I'm waiting for things much along the lines of Ironman's JARVIS (or KITT). But what I really really want is a full blown version of Jeeves voiced by Stephen Fry. I'll have to settle for the TomTom Stephen Fry voice for now [1].

Is there a turing test for Butlers?

[0]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/voice-fill

[1]: https://www.tomtom.com/en_us/drive/maps-services/shop/naviga...

[2]: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/31/15720118/google-understand-...