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Voice Assistants

select all Aug. 10, 2018

Google Can’t Understand Me Unless I Speak Spanish in an American AccentJust as train conductors are taught to pronounce local destinations, voice assistants have a responsibility to understand a variety of accents.

By Ximena N. Larkin
select all Aug. 10, 2018

The Case for Setting Your GPS to Your Own VoiceIn their ability to predict and react to our needs, voice assistants are fundamentally extensions of ourselves. Should they also sound like us?

By Sarah Nechamkin
select all June 19, 2018

Amazon’s Alexa Is Your Next Hotel ConciergeFinally, you can get extra toilet paper by just screaming at your hotel room.

By Mack DeGeurin
select all May 9, 2018

Does Alexa Know I’m Gay?Why does Amazon keep suggesting I buy gardening products and granola?

By Nicole Boyce
select all Apr. 30, 2018

I Had to Teach My Alexa That Eggplants Were FruitEgg-plant, egg-plahnt. Let’s call the whole thing off.

By Renée Reizman
select all Apr. 26, 2018

I Was a Human SiriWho are virtual assistants for, and how do we relate to them?

By Emily Lever
select all Apr. 20, 2018

How Does Siri Actually Know What I’m Saying?A simple guide to how voice assistants process speech, and how they know you’re talking to them.

By Joseph Frankel
select all Apr. 20, 2018

Gimlet’s New Show Is About the Human Side of AIKristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat star in a new fiction podcast that explores the humor and terror of voice assistants.

By Charley Locke
select all July 5, 2017

Samsung’s Bixby and Why It’s So Hard to Create a Voice AILost in translation.

By Jake Swearingen
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Is Google Home an Amazon Echo Killer? Well…There can only be one. (There can actually be many.)

By Jake Swearingen