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The Rise of Voice Assistants like Amazon Echo, and How to Punish Wells Fargo

After Hours

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I Love Voice Recognition, but I Don't Get It

I bought an Amazon Echo from my home because of all the buzz around. But it's got some flaws. And one of the flaws is it doesn't exclusively recognize my voice. It will build a shopping list for anybody that says Alexa. My son glummed onto this and he started walking to my room and he'd say, Alexa, put sheet metal in my shopping basket. So I stopped using it. This is a case where you see a bunch of technology companies pushing something on us that we really weren't asking for.

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Speaker 3
I mean, you're using them heavily. Oh, I have to say, I love Google service by far the best. When I text, I'm not like that very fast.
Speaker 2
I rarely type now. I just speak when I text. I picked that up from watching you. So I just, they've been in so many conversations where you'll have to stop and send a text and you do it by voice. And just watching you do it so seamlessly, I started doing it as well. And it's wonderful. It does. That part does work. Yeah. It's funny how sometimes they work well and sometimes they don't. I bought an Amazon Echo from my home because of all the buzz around. So you like, yeah. Yeah. And I was using it and I was trying really hard to integrate it into my life. But it's got some flaws. And one of the flaws is it doesn't exclusively recognize my voice. And it will build a shopping list for you. But the truth is it will build a shopping list for anybody that says Alexa. So my son glummed onto this and he started walking to my room and he'd say, Alexa, put sheet metal in my shopping
Speaker 1
basket, put 10 boxes of lucky
Speaker 2
charms in my shopping basket. So it started to just get to be a ridiculous joke. So I stopped using it.
Speaker 1
So I have to say, I mean, I think in general on this podcast, I'm the Luddite because I just always feel so behind. I just, I love voice recognition. So recently I actually wrote an entire letter, like a review letter on with a voice recognition for UC. So that was fantastic. But that's not voice, I mean, I think of that as, I love voice recognition. That's fantastic. Turning it into text. I love that. But the voice interface to me is this kind of Google home and Amazon and that's back and forth. And I just, I feel naive saying this, I don't get the use case. Like I don't really get it. Yeah. And I don't really want to get it. I don't want Amazon on in my home all the time waiting for me to say Alexa. I don't understand why I'm supposed to be so excited about this. And I am, I confess, I'm a little paranoid, like devices around listening all the time. So what, I
Speaker 2
mean, you- It does feel like push versus pull though, right? Absolutely. This is a case where you see a bunch of technology companies pushing something on us that we really weren't asking for. And in some ways it might even feel premature to some of
Speaker 1
us. And why are they so excited about
Speaker 3
this?

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