Mark, I agree. We have hit a dead end with the designs of current #VoiceFirst platforms. One of the reasons we are entering into a cold winter. The Q&A approach has significant limits and no way past. There is also a significant miss-understanding of why #VoiceFirst is popular.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @markcwebster
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Replying to @bretkinsella @markcwebster
Bret, thanks for asking! I could not adequately present in tweets. However it is not for the fundamental reasons that the computer or iPhone became popular. Thus the metrics most use don’t work. Thinking of it as a smart speaker is the root of how the invalid assumptions begin.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @markcwebster
I'm not sure this crew is thinking of it as smart speakers anymore...and they are likely the leading indicator of a societal shift. Within 2 years people will think of voice assistants first as a tool on their phone or other personal devices. Smart speakers merely a convenience.
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Replying to @bretkinsella @BrianRoemmele
I think even saying "assistants" is a big assumption. Maybe this is all about using voice to interact within "apps" themselves. Maybe it's the concept of an assistant that falls away.
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I think the market is big enough to support several outcomes, that’s the thing. But at the moment if you forget about smart home, gaming and media then there isn’t much else presently viable. Assistance definitely has its place and is the most obvious route for multi modal.
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An alternative view is to look at the web. There are many benefits of a web presence that go beyond direct monetization or product feature extension. So, the failure may be that, as
@basche42 sort of said, too many people are viewing voice too narrowly. A different lens is needed1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @bretkinsella @markcwebster and
The web expanded by becoming richer in features and possibilities - in effect it became more like enterprise software. Voice at the moment, design aside, is as basic as HTML (hat tip
@thedavedev) - it’s that assistive enrichment which will grow the base.2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @daviddlow @bretkinsella and
Folks, what limits us in these amazing discussions is the nomenclature and the analogies we use. In just about all ways
#VoiceFirst is not like anything that came before. Indeed If we get granular it looks like just code but this is how we get lost.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele @daviddlow and
Maybe "The Last Interface" will help expand the nomenclature.
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Bret, thank you sir. I hope so.
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @bretkinsella and
So to summarize, one thing that stuck out to me about last week was the lack of this twitter thread but in real life
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