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Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B by nsriv on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#26780106)
I'm a fan of Google Assistant's usefulness and I generally agree with this. The Assistant craze seems more justified when you consider that companies like Google and Amazon are using it as a way to build datasets. It's a strategic reserve of data to build other things from (i.e. Google Duplex) and it doesn't matter at their scale if there isn't a vision yet, if a competitor is stockpiling transcribable voice data, they need to keep up.
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Re:Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B by atat7024 on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:57PM (#26783555)
> The Assistant craze seems more justified when you consider that companies like Google and Amazon are using it as a way to build datasets.

Basically every new goddamn trend that is allowed to occur is about how datasets can be compiled from such marketed options.

That's why we don't have first-class convergence devices yet. It'd likely blend our home and mobile usage profiles too much.

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