Get Smart

Adam Turner

Voice assistants and ‘smart speakers’ are taking over the home, connecting home devices with music, entertainment and smart-home functions. Adam Turner debates whether it is yet time to surrender your lounge room to the all-powerful smart overlords. Speech recognition is being touted as the biggest change since the mouse. No need for a screen interface, a keyboard, a mouse, even a touchscreen. The various breeds of talkative smart assistants are now battling for command of Australian smart homes. But should you be in a rush to abdicate your rule over the lounge room? Too many apps For a while it has seemed that smartphones would be the interface with which the smart home would be ruled. Even those companies involved in professional smart-home systems, who had their own touch-screen controllers…

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Sound + Image (Digital) - 1 Issue, June - July 2018

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