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Is Voice Command Ready for Commercial Environments? No.

It’s this writer’s view that voice command and AI isn’t quite ready for applications in commercial technology.

July 25, 2018 Christopher Maione Leave a Comment

The consumer world is going bonkers over voice command technology (“gadgets,” really). But Siri, Cortana, Alexa, Google, and Bixby are just first generation (more like Beta versions) of it.

“Wow, I can turn on lights, raise the temperature of my home, play music, set alarms, check the weather, place calls”…and the list continues to grow.

All of this information our AI friends collect goes out to the cloud and, thick as thieves, they’re sifting through relevant content and re-marketing it back to us. You are an amazing resource of information for voice command technology itself.

Now, is this technology ready for prime time, commercial technology spaces? In my opinion: NOPE!

Voice Command and Corporate Spaces: Not Ready Yet

Sure, we can use voice command to turn the lights on and lower the shades. Besides those, though, there’s not much more they can do in commercial technology.

It is very unfortunate typical touch screen became an over-complicated technology – mostly due to the overzealous geek programmers that insisted on fitting every button and command available onto the control panel pages.

We’re just not at the point where we could use AI smoothly while establishing an audio or videoconference, displaying a laptop or PC, etc.

Think of all the voice libraries that would have to be “trained” for true voice recognition across all forms of voices, languages, accents and dialects. Will we establish some universal form of voice commands? And are any of our corporate clients going to allow “microphones” in conference rooms that are open to the (public) cloud?

How about this?

“Alexa – please set the lights for videoconferencing, lower the shades – establish a multipoint videoconference between NY room 5A, London Room 2B and Hong Kong Room 3C…

“…Please also dial the audio bridge for dial-in only callers and once established and the meeting starts, please enable the front laptop connection in Tokyo for content sharing.”

And I misspoke earlier, this technology is actually second-generation audio control. I believe the first gen went something like this: “Clap On – Clap Off”.

 

Christopher Maione is an expert in the AV industry with over 28 years of audiovisual expertise. Currently, he assists the end-user on large scale AV projects and helping companies grow their business within the AV market and is also an Adjunct InfoComm Faculty Member. This article was originally posted on TD sister site Commercial Integrator.

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