Its also hard to get past the weirdness of speaking to an inanimate object.
In fact,nearly 60 percent of Americanssay they change the way they speak when talking to a robot.
But they cant actually do anything with those words unless they can make sense of the transcript.
Thats what makes voice assistants appear smartthey process and understand natural human speech and respond accordingly.
Speak to Alexa like shes your friend
Voice assistants are trained using human speech patterns.
In general, even without a special setting, youll get the best results if you speak naturally.
Supported languages arefairly limited depending on the assistant.
For example, Alexa speaks English with five accent optionsas well as Japanese and German.
Siri supports 20 languages, with a number of additional dialects in several of those languages.
you’ve got the option to change your voice assistants accent or language under your unit prefs.
Heres how to do it forSiri,Alexa, andGoogle Assistant.
One thing a system could do if it doesnt understand is to say I didnt get that.
Can you say it a different way?
says Alexander Rudnicky, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon UniversitysLanguage Technologies Institute.
If youre a human, then thats a reasonable way to have a go at work with a system.
Just say it in another way.
she or he would give you a different answer than a person you dont know that well.
When a voice assistant cant grasp context, it generally wont be able to respond appropriately.
If you ask Google Assistant, Is Paddington 2 on Netflix yet?
she will say, My apologies…I dont understand.
In this case, the word on has multiple interpretations, Pearl says.
In some ways these assistants are really smart, Pearl says.
They know a lot of facts.
But in some ways theyre very dumb.
They dont have a lot of common sense about how the world works.
