“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
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    9 months ago

    That is amazing and very interesting,

    I think all the stuff with home automation is kinda unnecessary, but sometimes I find it cool and interesting, mostly when it is something local.