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Voice Assistants
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Aug. 10, 2018
Google Can’t Understand Me Unless I Speak Spanish in an American Accent Just as train conductors are taught to pronounce local destinations, voice assistants have a responsibility to understand a variety of accents.
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Aug. 10, 2018
The Case for Setting Your GPS to Your Own Voice In their ability to predict and react to our needs, voice assistants are fundamentally extensions of ourselves. Should they also sound like us?
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June 19, 2018
Amazon’s Alexa Is Your Next Hotel Concierge Finally, you can get extra toilet paper by just screaming at your hotel room.
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May 9, 2018
Does Alexa Know I’m Gay? Why does Amazon keep suggesting I buy gardening products and granola?
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Apr. 30, 2018
I Had to Teach My Alexa That Eggplants Were Fruit Egg-plant, egg-plahnt. Let’s call the whole thing off.
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Apr. 26, 2018
I Was a Human Siri Who are virtual assistants for, and how do we relate to them?
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Apr. 20, 2018
How Does Siri Actually Know What I’m Saying? A simple guide to how voice assistants process speech, and how they know you’re talking to them.
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Apr. 20, 2018
Gimlet’s New Show Is About the Human Side of AI Kristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat star in a new fiction podcast that explores the humor and terror of voice assistants.
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Nov. 3, 2016
Is Google Home an Amazon Echo Killer? Well… There can only be one. (There can actually be many.)
