Re:Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, d...
by doix on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:45AM
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Yes the latency was annoying, but the "AI" part was severely lacking. You couldn't just say _anything_, it had to be formatted the way Alexa expected.
You also couldn't really interrupt it, it wasn't a "natural" conversation. I knew what it was going to say and just wanted to reply already, but it only listens when it finishes speaking.
It also talks incredibly slowly, you could 5x the playback speed and it would probably still be understandable.
If all those things were fixed, I'd say it could make an okay product. Not great, but at least okay.
You also couldn't really interrupt it, it wasn't a "natural" conversation. I knew what it was going to say and just wanted to reply already, but it only listens when it finishes speaking.
It also talks incredibly slowly, you could 5x the playback speed and it would probably still be understandable.
If all those things were fixed, I'd say it could make an okay product. Not great, but at least okay.