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2. See #1.
Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?
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Re: Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?
#12It's because they're a cost center. They don't generate revenue for any big tech company. No one makes purchase decisions based on the voice assistant quality. I know a few people who lightly use them for timers or music, but almost no one goes deeper than that.
The technology as such isn't bad.
It's just the idea that the gear is spying on me, and I don't know where the data go for processing, that is the big downer.
Re: Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, makes sense (but still disheartening). I wonder if Apple will roll out a paid Siri Pro tier (with LLM). Maybe that would incentivize investment into tablestake features (ie. responding reliably).
Actually apple should have most incentive to make it reliable, as they sell least amount of other stuff based on ads and recommendations, afaik.
They should, but Siri is astonishingly, impossibly bad. It's the worst of the bunch.
I guess that's evidence that Apple really isn't competing on quality of most of their products. Once you're locked in their ecosystem, you just take what you get.
Re: Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?
#14It's because they're a cost center. They don't generate revenue for any big tech company. No one makes purchase decisions based on the voice assistant quality. I know a few people who lightly use them for timers or music, but almost no one goes deeper than that.
The technology as such isn't bad. It's just the idea that the gear is spying on me, and I don't know where the data go for processing, that is the big downer.
It’s not that. Otherwise no one would use gmail. The difference is that gmail works