Ok, Google “open deeplyroated.co.za” For once let’s put the phone vs android talk aside.
Lets talk about some things that involve Amazon the retail and Web services giant. Voice controlWhether you ok, google; Alexa or Hey Siri, you are part of this technologies adolescence stage. The point where it works, but is not perfect.
Before we dive into which is better than which, let's talk about why would we ever be speaking to our computers, phones, tv's and tablets? Because convenience.
There are those moments when your hands have soap, or your nails are not dry or your bike chain broke and basically your hands shouldn’t be touching your phone. At the same time you really want to listen to that new Nasty C so you yell “Hey Siri, Ply that new Nasty C album on Spotify“. Just like that, you have given a command to your machine.
Ever since Siri was introduced by apple in 2011 there has been a growing trendof personal a.i. assistants. From app Bixby, (horrible thing), to Ok, google (the best voice recognition such Alexa possibly the next best thing for voice computing.
What amazon did was bridge what we do naturally when we speak, we listen and thats what Alexa was made to do, listen to voice commands then deliver an amazon package, with something cheap and amazon branded involved there. Jokes aside, the first world countries you can order batteries and get them delivered to your door without pressing a button.
This is the power of voice and as the technology progresses we will be able to lock our doors, turning off lights as well as parking our cars into the garages.
But let us bring it back to today. How can you get involved ?You already have the power of voice in your pocket whether Android or iOS, then you are the exciting part, (and this is if You have home wifi setup for your devices) you can get an A.I enable speaker like Alexa, while who she is popular, I feel she just isn't that bitch in Southy. What I would Recommend for Android users google home or he google home mini which is cheaper.
Let's talk about the home mini a quick google scorch puts it at R999. It's cut made of fabric looks like it belongs in a nice hotel room and in a messy room like mine. Room Usb-c charge so it can go to a corner of the room.“ok, google” the weather, sports match and yes make it play your fave tunes on the fly.
Okay so on to Real tech, (sorry android users)a cheaper version of the homepod correctly named home pod mini this small ball is an spacial orgasm of ball that is siri enabled. Like the google mini it is also covered in a neat fabric that looks 2035.All I can say is woah. I'm going to be a lazy Journalist and Just Link here.
To close off your voice is not going to replace your keyboard Just yet, but it is a cool and interesting way to send commands to your machine. Like I said voice has a convince element and while you gain convince you lose accuracy. It’s easier to tell a speaker to play South African music than it is to tell it exactly what song to play like it is when you search for a song using your keyboard on Tidal.
All of these things are just affected by your positioning around your devices and your priority to the task you need computed. I still think talking to my devices to get them to open apps and search google is pretty cool and as the technology gets better we will be able to do even more convenient things by using the best instrument ever made… our voices.
