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by MerryOscar 3224 days ago
Right now, the biggest problem Life Bot solves for Alexa users is that we bring voice reminders out of the home - If you set a reminder using Alexa, it's only useful if you're around the device to hear it go off. Life Bot sends you your reminder via SMS so where ever you are you'll get it!

As we add more productivity features to Life Bot, we're also removing the need for user's to remember multiple invocation names for different skills.

Finally in the future we see people having to use multiple voice assistants during their day. You might have an Amazon Echo at home, but an Android phone with Google Assistant on it, and maybe even Cortana in your car. Life Bot will be on all platforms which will give you a consistent experience across all of them.
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asdfgadsfgasfdg 3224 days ago
Cross platform is a selling point for me at least.

Will you integrate with standard calendar technology? E.g. caldav etc?

I'm still not convinced that voice is a platform - it seems like more of a feature to me...

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MerryOscar 3224 days ago
Yes calendar integration will be included in the next release - we're going to start with Google Calendar but will add more of the most popular calendar services as we go.

I'm not 100% familiar with caldav but will look into it!

In terms of voice as a feature vs. platform - I think right now it appears to many to be a feature, because the quality and capability of voice apps is just not that great. Most voice apps offer a sub-set of the functionality available on mobile or web, so from a phycological point of view when you use one it feels like just a small (and often not as good) feature of the main product. However as the accuracy of the underlying speech to text and natural language understanding of these platforms gets better, and as the capability of voice apps gets better, we see voice becoming a much more easy and natural way for people to access their favourite products, services, and content.

Whenever you want something, you'll just ask your assistant, and because you may be using multiple platforms, we think Life Bot will be the best way to do this that maintains the context of what you like / don't like.

Definitely still early days though - but that's the vision!

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