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How AI really works, and how the smart home broke

The Vergecast

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Google Assistant and Siri for Smart Home Voice Control

The biggest problem I find with Google Assistant for smart home voice control is the delay. It doesn't have a local processing that Siri and actually Alexa does have on some of its devices. Most of the other platforms rely on phone geolocation, which does not work for me because I live in a cell phone dead zone. But they do each still have kind of have their own strengths and weaknesses. And we have actually had we had four or five writers on the verge go and write about their personal experiences with each of these platforms.

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