Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home

Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by melling on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:45AM (#21281974)

He mentions that he does.

The thing is everyone has a cellphone, even many kids. Invite half a dozen people over and you’ll get half a dozen cellphones.

I have a couple of Amazon Echos, plus iOS devices that occasionally activate Siri for no reason.

I love them. My feeling is that I’m willing to live with it for now. Hopefully, a decade from now, voice technology is perfected and more is done on device.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by throwaway2048 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:51PM (#21284578)

There is never going to come a day when any of these companies give you more control over your devices. Why would they? Thats their entire competitive advantage.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by melling on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:10PM (#21285386)

The Pixel 4 does speech to text on device. They do it because it's faster.

Once it becomes a solved problem, there will be better open source devices and more competition. On device will be a checkbox feature.

Not every company makes you the product.

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Re:Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests e... by serf on Saturday October 19, 2019 @05:12AM (#21297578)

>Not every company makes you the product.

yeah, but since that has been a workable angle we'd had an explosion of companies that do make you the product.

I wouldn't assume the inverse over time related to a reduction in effort from better devices and competition; i'd assume further growth.

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