Re:Amazon Echo Released
by notatoad on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:43PM
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google now will try it's best to answer questions out loud if they were asked that way. Your weather example works, but in general it's inconsistent enough that i can't assume it will give me an audible answer, and I usually limit myself to speaking only questions or commands that i know to work.
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Re:Amazon Echo Released
by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:47PM
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> google now will try it's best to answer questions out loud if they were asked that way.
And its a fairly amazing technical achievement, but its still got a long way to go -- if you ask when a business opens, it will show you the hours but not tell you the time it opens, even though Google has enough semantic understanding of the open/close times to tell you on the results page with the hours that it is "closing soon" or "closed now" if that is the case.