Amazon Alexa. The next big…fad

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Even if accuracy were 100%, voice control will struggle in any circumstance where it can't beat the speed of typing.

Concur. “Arm full of baby” or “I’m elbows deep into a recipe and need to set a timer” are great use cases.

I wish these assistants were smarter. “Turn on the light” detected by an Echo shouldn’t struggle to understand I probably mean the one in the same room as the Echo hearing the command, and not the one three rooms away.

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