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Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Mhm. So yet another Siri. Apparently "Vernax" is behind it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vernax#/entity Website is down: http://www.vernax.com/ They really need a native English speaker to clean up the text on the homepage though. Lot's of sub-optimal phrasing.

*Lots

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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post #3

Mhm. So yet another Siri. Apparently "Vernax" is behind it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vernax#/entity Website is down: http://www.vernax.com/ They really need a native English speaker to clean up the text on the homepage though. Lot's of sub-optimal phrasing.

They're from Toronto! That makes it even weirder that they have some pretty rough ESL issues.

Lots of Torontonians are ESL.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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post #7
post #3

Mhm. So yet another Siri. Apparently "Vernax" is behind it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vernax#/entity Website is down: http://www.vernax.com/ They really need a native English speaker to clean up the text on the homepage though. Lot's of sub-optimal phrasing.

They're from Toronto! That makes it even weirder that they have some pretty rough ESL issues.

We're non native speaker. We didn't update our Crunchbase for a long long time and now we are in Japan now. Sorry.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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On a slightly related note, I, personally, noticed that I don't want to get things done. Most of the things, at least. After working GTD style I feel happier and more productive, but usually not closer to my goals. I found, that failing do to most of the things is bearable, as long as I'm keep doing things that matter.

I'm still using GTD stuff, but just to "better forget", to unload working memory.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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I love the design for this. Excellent!

As a side note, I'm curious to how/why you named it Audrey. I think it's very interesting that these 'personal assistants' have traditionally feminine names.

P.S. At the bottom, "Here's are some" is not grammatically correct.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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I hope this is helpful feedback: * There are several small typos on the page ("How does it works?") that distract from its content. * The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. * What appears to set "Audrey" aside from, say, Alexa is the promise that you can take a moment to train the AI when it misunderstands you. That's a great feature; I can tell Alexa that she was wrong (via the app), but t…

The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice.

Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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post #18

I love the design for this. Excellent! As a side note, I'm curious to how/why you named it Audrey. I think it's very interesting that these 'personal assistants' have traditionally feminine names. P.S. At the bottom, "Here's are some" is not grammatically correct.

They should probably have someone look at the English, there are a few easily spotted errors even in the short sentences explaining the features.
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