Is voice technology ... still trying to establish itself?
There is both a philosophical as well as promotional aspect when you consider the voice technologies present today, but a more disheartening fact is a absence of a unified framework.
Unfortunately we are still bound to product driving technology rather than technology driving the product.
Let's not mistake this for a fact that every quality product has got some checks in place to allow for or disable the use of the product in a non efficient fashion, we are not talking about that.
I still firmly believe that each quality product should has their own framework to safeguard the use or extensibility of that brand but where is the common standard?
Well, to be precise - there has always been a common standard - be it the start of the computer age via the DOS, Windows or Unix/Mac OS or via the start of the mobile age via the Android, iOS so above frameworks have made sure that desktop web or mobile app points of access have certain well defined frameworks in place.
Now let's look at voice - as of today, each brand be it apple iOS or google or amazon gives it's own framework when voice in itself has certain commonly used concepts like for e.g. - intent, etc.
So a programmer has to learn or work around each framework and the limitations around it.
This really detriminates the effectiveness and application of the technology to areas which really work to make a difference.
I see voice typically being used as prime driving source when it comes to environments with limited movability like for example space but unfortunately our systems developed using voice are handling very basic tasks.
It still a long way to go... but the absolute minimum is a common framework...
There is both a philosophical as well as promotional aspect when you consider the voice technologies present today, but a more disheartening fact is a absence of a unified framework.
Unfortunately we are still bound to product driving technology rather than technology driving the product.
Let's not mistake this for a fact that every quality product has got some checks in place to allow for or disable the use of the product in a non efficient fashion, we are not talking about that.
I still firmly believe that each quality product should has their own framework to safeguard the use or extensibility of that brand but where is the common standard?
Well, to be precise - there has always been a common standard - be it the start of the computer age via the DOS, Windows or Unix/Mac OS or via the start of the mobile age via the Android, iOS so above frameworks have made sure that desktop web or mobile app points of access have certain well defined frameworks in place.
Now let's look at voice - as of today, each brand be it apple iOS or google or amazon gives it's own framework when voice in itself has certain commonly used concepts like for e.g. - intent, etc.
So a programmer has to learn or work around each framework and the limitations around it.
This really detriminates the effectiveness and application of the technology to areas which really work to make a difference.
I see voice typically being used as prime driving source when it comes to environments with limited movability like for example space but unfortunately our systems developed using voice are handling very basic tasks.
It still a long way to go... but the absolute minimum is a common framework...
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