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Both startups promise that talking to these devices will be very smooth. However, the associate professor still has doubts about whether that is really the case. "An important problem is precision. When I do something via a mouse and keyboard, I can be very precise. With speech that is always a lot more difficult, because understanding what you mean is much more important."
If the new voice-controlled assistants master this well, it would be a big step, he says. "But that is also dangerous because they guess what you mean. They may be right, but they could also be wrong
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29 January 2024
New AI gadgets want to compete with Siri and Alexa
It has been possible for years: operating computers with your voice instead of your hands. Apple, Google and Amazon have developed and marketed their own smart assistant and accompanying speaker in recent years. Now that the artificial intelligence (AI) required for this is improving, two startups are bringing new gadgets to the market that focus on voice control. Can they provide a breakthrough?
All in all, virtual assistants have not significantly changed how we interact with devices so far. The startups, R1 and AI Pin want to change that.
Both startups promise that talking to these devices will be very smooth. However, the associate professor still has doubts about whether that is really the case. "An important problem is precision. When I do something via a mouse and keyboard, I can be very precise. With speech that is always a lot more difficult, because understanding what you mean is much more important."
If the new voice-controlled assistants master this well, it would be a big step, he says. "But that is also dangerous because they guess what you mean. They may be right, but they could also be wrong
Read the entire article here.
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