Okay Voicebot nation, you are back from #voice19 or have digested the many summaries (or both). What is some detail or fact you learned that may appear small bit really stuck with you that came out of last week? #voicefirst #alexa #soundhound #GoogleAssistant #bixby #cortana
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Replying to @bretkinsella
The uniformity in thinking and lack of debate or contrarian viewpoints. We’re all saying similar things about voice, growth, design and its affects on search/e-commerce/marketing, but not enough critical thinking about what’s holding back voice, how we expand usecases, etc.
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Replying to @markcwebster
So, what is the contrarian viewpoint you would put forward? What is holding it all back?
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Replying to @bretkinsella @markcwebster
Skills/Actions/Shortcuts are a dead end
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Replying to @bretkinsella @markcwebster
Tasks are the wrong abstraction for people to be aware of, they should associate a brand and an assistant with a domain which contains the relevant tasks To a certain extent, we are seeing Skills “hacked” to behave like this, Capital One Eno on Alexa as an example
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Ben, brilliance sir. This is it precisely. The challenge is to get the right people to understand this. Most of the folks that build this stuff have a psychological connection to th 1890s keyboard and think in terms of downloading and apps with a visual App Store.
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