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Voice assistants are neat — they let us interface with computers without having to bother with touching them at all. Still, many decry the perceived privacy intrusion these devices present, …read more Continue reading Your Voice Assistant Doesn’t Have To Be Cloudy
For many, the voice assistants are helpful listeners. Just shout to the void, and a timer will be set, or Led Zepplin will start playing. For some, the lack of …read more Continue reading Bringing The Voice Assistant Home
Science fiction has regularly portrayed smart computer assistants in a fanciful way. HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey and J.A.R.V.I.S. from the contemporary Iron Man films are both great examples. …read more Continue reading Smart Assistants Need To Get Smarter
If science fiction taught us anything, it’s that voice control was going to be the human-machine interface of the future. [Dennis] has now whipped up a tutorial that lets you …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: A DIY Voice-Control Module
If you don’t use the voice assistant on a ChromeOS, macOS or Windows system, you may choose to turn off Google Assistant, Siri or Cortana.
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Despite the proliferation of artificial lighting, humans are still highly dependent on sunlight for regulation of our circadian rhythms. Accordingly, [Sector 07] has built a futuristic headboard that can help …read more Continue reading This Headboard Contains an Artificial Sun
Brrrrrrrring! Movies and TV are one thing, but the siren song of a rotary phone ringing in the same room as you is one of those sounds you carry forever. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Vintagephone Links the Past to the Present (and Future)
There’s little debate that Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem makes it easy to add voice control to your smart home, but not everyone is thrilled with how it works. The fact that …read more Continue reading Amazon Echo Gets Open Source Brain Transplant
This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the release of Xbox Kinect, promising to revolutionize how we play. That vision never panned out, but as …read more
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Voice Assistants, love them, or hate them, are becoming more and more commonplace. One problem for voice assistants is the situation of multiple devices listening in the same place. When a command is given, which device should answer? Researchers at CMU’s Future Interfaces Group [Karan Ahuja], [Andy Kong], [Mayank Goel], …read more
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