“As it stands today, we’re not ready yet to tell people that our voice assistant is a replacement for Google/Amazon,” Schoutsen wrote. “We don’t have to be as good as their systems, but there is a certain bar of usable that we haven’t reached yet.”

Key among the improvements that need to happen, according to Schoutsen:

  • Audio input needs to be cleaned up (speaker voice separated) before it is processed
  • Error messages need to be more clear about what’s going wrong, and input has to have more flexibility
  • Non-English languages need a lot of commands and variables
  • Compatible hardware that features far-listening microphones has to be more widely available
  • Most people will want local processing to be faster
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    9 months ago

    That would be the one thing I’d want it for, I’m thinking about it. I never really found the need to use one of those until I was making a large dinner for friends and they used their watch to help me keep track of everything.