{"id":324,"date":"2020-04-23T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:51:19","slug":"do-you-speak-to-siri-alexa-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/do-you-speak-to-siri-alexa-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you speak to Siri\/Alexa\/Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I often ask Siri to switch on, or off, lights around the house &#8211; yes I am that geek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I also find I reply back to Siri when a confirmation is made, like when I ask for a piece of music or playlist to be played, Siri will confirm, and I say thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this new idea, just sounds right up my street. And when you watch the video, you might also be thinking, &#8220;what else can this do for me&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-9-to-5-mac\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ik2J5PfhDB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/04\/23\/dumb-devices-made-smart\/\">Apple\/CMU researchers show dumb devices made smart by HomePod listening<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Apple\/CMU researchers show dumb devices made smart by HomePod listening&#8221; &#8212; 9to5Mac\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/04\/23\/dumb-devices-made-smart\/embed\/#?secret=Ik2J5PfhDB\" data-secret=\"Ik2J5PfhDB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, this just feels like a natural next step, and I sort of wonder why no one has done this yet anyway. Then I remember, it&#8217;s amazingly tough to make some of the things that we take for granted as natural for us, happen within or by a computer system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <em>really<\/em> want to see this happen sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often ask Siri to switch on, or off, lights around the house &#8211; yes I am that geek. But I also find I reply back to Siri when a confirmation is made, like when I ask for a piece of music or playlist to be played, Siri will confirm, and I say thank you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/do-you-speak-to-siri-alexa-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you speak to Siri\/Alexa\/Google?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}