Paul, great question. You know as we move into the tentative steps of the #VoiceFirst revolution it will be evident to all device makers that the device itself becomes less a criteria for use for the user. It is the effect of the #VoiceFirst interface that is paramount.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @PaulSweeney and
I'll second that and raise you one. Feature phones in India & Indonesia have Google Assistant. That fact separates the tight coupling of the digital revolution with a screen. For $10 you can carry Google Assistant in your pocket. Screens remain important, but voice decouples.
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Replying to @bretkinsella @PaulSweeney and
At least in India if you can go from screen to voice, for cheap, you can tap into a much larger population that's not very literate, especially in English. But the challenge for voice is speech recognition in the vernacular, and the umpteen dialects that don't even sound similar.
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Replying to @prem_k @bretkinsella and
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@bretkinsella I'll raise you back. As#hearables mature the cheap phone becomes a gateway to the cloud / edge voice proc. that leaves your pocket less and less.#AI#VoiceFirst is coming and@prem_k's dialects will be rolled up one by one.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @AndyB_Knowles @prem_k and
Watching the EarPod + Voice numbers for sure ....
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Replying to @PaulSweeney @AndyB_Knowles and
I'll be watching the
@snips folks too and the kind of democratisation they enable. And the other headline that I'm yet to read up on, about offline wake word recognition within 10-20 KB of code for IoT.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @prem_k @PaulSweeney and
On the latter
@KnowlesCorp is already doing it. Low power DSP + code in a MEMS mic, anybody can implement offline voice wake like Vivo and others are. http://ow.ly/9Qtc30ksI35 pic.twitter.com/x4ByBzbQpO
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Replying to @AndyB_Knowles @prem_k and
I see very little purpose of offline voice wake if you're not also doing speech ASR/TTS offline as well - as
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Replying to @fluidvoice @AndyB_Knowles and
On device vs on cloud is more of a pendulum; as we are now seeing from Amazon AWS going hybrid too.
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Replying to @PaulSweeney @fluidvoice and
The importance of on-device capabilities is just starting to service. At base, we need to build tools that work in a disconnected state, when required to act as a true "natural language personal agent".
#agency is key and benefits from cloud but is basically local.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Folks, wonderful insights here! In 9 days I will give a talk @AlexaConfVFM that I assert will settle precisely where a true AI #VoiceFirst Personal Assistant will be embodied. There are many foundationsto this as we move through time.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @dnm54 and
Alas! While
#CES2019 and#NAMM2019 are on my docket, I won't be at @AlexaConfVFM to hear its excellent list of speakers.@bmetrock will any of it be made available afterward?1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @AndyB_Knowles @BrianRoemmele and
Hey Andy. Not recording most of the sessions...but maybe you can join us next year...and would be great to connect out at CES!
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