Re:Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit
by mFixman on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:57PM
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4. An interface that allows me to listen to the ratio or to podcasts without having to touch (and potentially get distracted by) my cellphone.
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Re:Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit
by KJKingJ on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:09PM
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For an elderly relative of mine who no longer has the physical dexterity they used to, this has been a killer feature of voice assistants for them. No longer do they need to fiddle with awkward buttons to change the radio station or find out what the weather is, they just... ask and it happens.