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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
No Skybird. I was playing with my brother's Alexa the other day and most of the time her response is "I didn't understand what you want." She's the best of the personal assistants so that tells you what they are worth.
The only time I think they are useful is if you are driving and want to call someone without touching a cell phone. Even then the impersonal thing doesn't need to talk to you.
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I can understand talking navigation devices when yiour ride a car. Or the benefit for people with handicapped eyesight, i observed that myself during a trainride one year ago, an old women, almost blind, who called in a taxi for her arrival, and called someboy else to tell her the train was delayed. Okay. Disadvantage: the whole train compartment participated in her private life.
But usually: normal people? What does Cortana do for me that I van not do with greater speed and precision with a mouse? Worse: when buying something like this Amazon cylinder that was prgrammede to react to the speaking out of the magical speel "Alexa", - only to tell it to play a song, or ordering it to tell me the weather?
Hype.
Specialised purposes in clearly defined environments, okay, I can image and have read enough science ficiton to understand that there cna be imagined scneairos, when it is nic to have a tlakign compouter. But they act todfay as if private households could not live anymorte wiothout these things. As a matter of fact I find the scneairo of commanding a computer to do thre stuff I want it to do via voice, much more annoying, than to use a graphical mouse interface handled via mouse (or gestures).
The next big thing, they say. I do not see it.