Why not get headsets like they have at fast food places? Edit: I feel like that would be a lot cheaper than even one worker comp claim slipping on a flour-covered floor in a pizza place.
I think it's optimistic to think the pizza making process at Domino's involves any loose flour. I would have imagined frozen and/or refrigerated lumps of premade dough on a rack.
I don't know about Dominoes, but when I worked for Papa Johns many years ago loose flour was involved in the process of shaping the refrigerated lumps of premade dough into a pizza crust.
I have to disagree. Mostly your right, but I have a very specific fail case that happens every time with Siri. I can't call my wife by name. I have to always call her "wife", because it thinks I want to change my name. Now it's a name in the address book, but it never matches against it. I can also use it dictate an email or search the web, and occasionally it fails (maybe 10% of the time?), but it almost never gets…
Okay I'll bite. What's your wife's name?
Something that starts with 'me'. As in: 'call miyuki' --> 'ok, I'll call you yuki'
I also use "Call my wife" and "Text my wife" or "Tell my wife that ...". They work every time. Music playing is disappointing - if I want to open YouTube to play something, it can't. I don't understand why they didn't at least add a few commands for YouTube. At least "play Band", "play Song by Band", "play Music-Genre", "play something like X", "I feel sad/happy/lonely/bored play some music". If you want to understan…
> I don't understand why they didn't at least add a few commands for YouTube. At least "play Band", "play Song by Band", "play Music-Genre", "play something like X", "I feel sad/happy/lonely/bored play some music". Because YouTube ain't a music player? [1] And besides they have their own music app. [1] Seriously, even though some people use it as such, this is far from most. According to YouTube itself, the average u…
> They chalked the failure up to the disadvantages of a UI where the full extent of the functionality is hidden and difficult to understand, leading to bad experiences. I imagine this technology will have many of the same struggles. This is super hard. Not only do you have hidden functionality (what a great insight!) but they are trying to do something better than the current state of the art (which is human-to-human…
Which is probably why solutions like Open Table exist and succeed. For me at least, avoiding this kind of inexact interaction is desirable. Simple forms on web pages can provide a smoother UX than talking to huamns for the this type of interaction. If these can provide that one shot process, then inevitably that is the expectation set of any replacement UI.
The solution to that problem will be AI to AI instead of AI to human, using standardized interfacing (likely one of a few big common standards, with each AI being capable of utilizing any of them) so the AI can easily understand each other.
In the next ten years there will be a large battle - which will play out on HN daily - over the AI to AI standards; it'll remind older developers of the XML / JSON days.
Which is probably why solutions like Open Table exist and succeed. For me at least, avoiding this kind of inexact interaction is desirable. Simple forms on web pages can provide a smoother UX than talking to huamns for the this type of interaction. If these can provide that one shot process, then inevitably that is the expectation set of any replacement UI.
The solution to that problem will be AI to AI instead of AI to human, using standardized interfacing (likely one of a few big common standards, with each AI being capable of utilizing any of them) so the AI can easily understand each other. In the next ten years there will be a large battle - which will play out on HN daily - over the AI to AI standards; it'll remind older developers of the XML / JSON days.
The beginning of the chain is a human -- the user! And at the end of the day this is all about the user!
Once you know what the user wants it's "easy" (well, somewhat easy anyway :-). It's the iterative process of understanding the user in an unconstrained opaque ad hoc UI that is big-H Hard.
The problem with these spoken interfaces is not just that we don't know what we don't know, we don't even know what we want to accomplish!
Something that starts with 'me'. As in: 'call miyuki' --> 'ok, I'll call you yuki'
Ding! Ding! Ding! You have found the fail case.
In a somewhat related note, I've noticed people search on some websites fail with Vietnamese names because surnames are interpreted as prepositions, and thus dropped as a stop word.
The funny thing is that voice recognition is no longer the problem. For years the reason you couldn't do voice command interfaces was that transcription didn't work, but today transcription works amazingly well. My commands are transcribed perfectly, even in my car when I'm doing 65 on the freeway with my phone stuck in a cupholder. The problem now is Android randomly kills the "OK Google" background listening proces…
I have to disagree. Mostly your right, but I have a very specific fail case that happens every time with Siri. I can't call my wife by name. I have to always call her "wife", because it thinks I want to change my name. Now it's a name in the address book, but it never matches against it. I can also use it dictate an email or search the web, and occasionally it fails (maybe 10% of the time?), but it almost never gets…
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Google's voice recognition is better than Apple's (which is powered by Nuance, right?). Also, recognition for search queries and voice actions tends to work better than completely unconstrained text transcription. Of course "perfect" is an exaggeration, but my point is that Google's voice query transcription has passed a threshold and it is no longer the least reliable part of the system.
That's like saying it's just as easy to call a taxi company than use Uber. (It's about the ux).
It's like these fools forgot that natural language sucks as an interface. Look at the whole bot/messaging craze. The way people get excited by this is beyond me. Surely, all of this is a symptom of howuch people hate software fragmentation. Fortunately, there are other ways to fix it.
That's a temporary problem that is getting better as the years go by. Conversation is the most natural interface.