With Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant, smart voice interfaces have found their way onto each of our smartphones, and they are about to be found in more and more gadgets in our homes:
The newest generation of smart speakers brings the vocal assistant as a key feature, not only allowing us to listen to our favorite tracks, streamed from Spotify via Bluetooth from our smartphones, but also acting as an interface to the web.
Using voice assistants to get the weather forecast for the day, find out what the capital of Finland is, or create a reminder to buy the milk makes these tasks a lot easier.
Natural voice interfaces open up a door to the connected world to control our homes and gain easy access to information. The technology is still young and full of flaws—...
