Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It

Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It by jaimebuelta on Monday December 19, 2016 @07:40PM (#13216353)

Voice is great to have conversations. To give short commands, other interfaces are good as well.

For example, I can check the weather for today on my phone with minimal fuzz, clicking 2 or 3 times and getting much richer information (a full graph with short term forecast, a few hours in advance, etc) in a single screen shot. Another example, ordering a pizza. I prefer a GUI over calling and taking to some human. The options are clearer, and I can review easily what I'm ordering.

Not to say that it's impractical, but voice doesnt carry a lot of info for a lot of services. We'd prefer a phone call over an specific tactile interface for everything, and that's not the case...

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Re:Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It by ThomPete on Monday December 19, 2016 @08:07PM (#13216484)

I a not sure I understand what you are getting at.

I gave some pretty specific examples of what it's great for.

I am not saying it's great enough yet for much more complex things no disagreement there. But unlike Seamless web or mobile interface I could potentially just with the command, "order the usual from Joe's Pizza" skip a whole suite of interactions needed to order food today.

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