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Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by Eleison23 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:26AM (#33717399)
Me and voice assistants are like me on the ballroom dance floor. I loved to take the lessons and learn all sorts of moves and chain them all together and look impressive, but when I got onto the floor with a partner, I just wouldn't know what to do or where to start. I kept to the "basic" steps and maybe a timid little turn once in a while.

Maybe it's possible to learn a working vocabulary and know how to command a voice assistant. I know my way around several command lines, but I have no idea what to say to Hey Google.

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Re:Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it ... by Avicebron on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:22AM (#33717827)
it almost sounds like you are describing how it feels to learn a new language. And if that's the case and people need to learn "voice assistant" to communicate with their device effectively, hasn't it utterly failed as a natural language processor?

Also I know this is true in other domains as well, obviously there is a common "google-ese" that people learn to narrow down their searches.

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