voice assistants
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Boris Soffman · across every show →
Everything said about voice assistants, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Sofman: Vector gets 10-12 queries daily versus 1-2 for smart speakers
“And so Suddenly, like, when you look at voice assistants that have an average of maybe, like, one to two queries a day, and we're at, like, 10 to 12 even before we have a voice assistants built in, it causes us to ask a lot of questions of how do you leverage …”
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Kumar: Traditional text-to-speech sounds flat because non-neutral tones risk sounding inappropriate
“And that's probably why, or it's one of the reasons why historically voice assistants feel so flat is that traditional text of speech, it's kind of like it can only be flat. Or in other words, if it tries to not be flat, it's very likely wrong.”