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 @bretkinsella
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.1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele @markcwebster
Why is
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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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Replying to @markcwebster @BrianRoemmele
You are talking about voice interface vs assistant. The former is incremental. Much like conversational is incremental. The latter is (potentially) transformational. Assistants today aren't very smart beyond speech recognition and basic intent identification. That will change.
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Replying to @bretkinsella @markcwebster
Brian Roemmele Retweeted Brian Roemmele
Bret, I agree. Perfectly stated. However I would adjust that to these true highly contextual
#VoiceFirst assistants have not been yet released on the market. In some labs they are already here and having very useful conversations. An example:https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1120723442964131841?s=21 …Brian Roemmele added,
0:52Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmeleJust finished a Wall Street Analyst call with Alfred#TheIntelligenceAmplifier listening in. Over 12,000 neuronal connections and a summary in less than 30 minutes after the call is astonishing. Moments like this show how this is not keyboard vs#VoiceFirst. It is a new paradigm. pic.twitter.com/92nZvg5te61 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @BrianRoemmele @markcwebster
Yes. Context (and the contextual subset of personalization) is absent today from consumer voice assistants. Bixby has potential on this front. TBD. However, we are mostly just anonymous actors with no history, preferences, or interests to consumer voice assistants today.
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Bret, indeed. This is it precisely. The quagmire is: the high context needed for the next paradigm shift is so great that if it were in the cloud the repercussions would be destructive at some early point. Thus you and I have a challenge ahead. We don’t fix this nothing happens.
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