Whether it is when Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant or Apple Siri, have just launched a few years ago is not like that, "Sentimental" looks like. Three positioning technology giant will own voice assistant artificial intelligence update and improve, and the difference between them is growing. It is precisely this distinction, let those of us concerned about the artificial intelligence assistant, to continue this competition is full of interest.
Google I / O conference, is a developer conference that the search giant will be held in May every year, and there have been a lot of news about the smart home. Apple's annual WWDC developer conference also has just begun. As Amazon's RE: MARS conference currently underway. This makes the smart home field recently and voice assistant news people overwhelmed, especially new products related to Alexa, Google and Apple Siri Assistant is released.
So let us explore the recent changes to the three voice assistant in order to better understand the advantages of each assistant, as well as their respective most in need of improvement either way, of course, what we want to see change in the future.
Alexa
Since the 2014 launch of the first smart Echo speakers, Amazon has been a leader in the field of intelligent home. Now Amazon's total of 7 speakers smart and smart displays to choose from, and have built-in artificial intelligence assistant by the Amazon's Alexa. Users need to say "Alexa" to awaken their own voice assistant, then Alexa can help us navigate, directions, a la carte, or even turn on the lights or adjust the temperature of the thermostat.
Alexa is already a quite powerful voice assistant, but it needs to wake up every word in order to initiate a new dialogue. For example, if I ask: before "? Alexa, current temperature thermostat corridor is how much." After that, it requires the hallway Alexa thermostat to adjust the temperature, I must say again, "Alexa."
Of course, in fact, replaced by another one that would be more natural to say, it is: "Alexa, current temperature thermostat corridor is how much?" And then simply say "my hallway thermostat set to 24 degrees," that argument more natural, and does not require the use of the word wake again.
Fortunately, Amazon recently updated two new feature that allows natural language ability Alexa smarter.
First, Alexa became quickly handle multiple related requests without repetition we say "Alexa". We expect this feature will be launched later in 2019 to US users, but a specific plan is still unknown. My colleague Ben Fox Rubin (Ben Fox Rubin) in the Amazon re: MARS Congress have seen this feature. In a video presentation, he was asked to Alexa movie times, local theaters, buy movie tickets, restaurant reservations and booking a car Uber car, without having mentioned several times in the course of Alexa.
In addition, Amazon also held a contest called Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge, encouraging college students to design social robot, and help develop Alexa natural language capabilities. Currently the game has entered its third year, the University of California, Davis won first place last year, including a $ 500,000 bonus check can be used to support their social robot project. Amazon announced before a 2018 winner of the blog, said the robot average call length of 9 minutes and 59 seconds.
2017, University of Washington, Seattle got the awards, and their social robot average continuous talk time of 10 minutes and 22 seconds. Amazon hopes to help more developers to develop through a robot capable of longer natural dialogue, so that these students can help Team Amazon and Alexa to find the best way to keep longer natural dialogue. Zhengzhou flow of the hospital: https: //myyk.familydoctor.com.cn/21521/