But in the long term could we see the eventual extinction of
dedicated voice assistant device, even as the likes of Alexa and Google Assistant become ever - more common features in the modern smart home?
Not exact matches
Accessible through the web browser on your desktop or laptop PC, a
dedicated app on your smartphone or tablet, or through your
voice on a smartwatch or home
assistant device — you have so many options available to find the information you're looking for.
Since then, Amazon's own Alexa
assistant has completely leapfrogged Microsoft's own efforts, spawning a range of
devices and skills
dedicated to
voice control.
The power buttons have been placed to the left side of the
device along with a
dedicated key which is speculated to be the Samsung's
voice assistant, Bixby.
The company says that its «next
device» (read: Galaxy S8) will have a
dedicated Bixby button on the right side, making it easier to activate the
voice assistant.
Lu believes Microsoft and Google «made the same mistake» of focusing on the phone and PC for
voice assistants, instead of a
dedicated device.
The new class of
Assistant devices with screens were the most interesting Googley gadgets at the show, demonstrating how a
dedicated screen could streamline what is sometimes a clunky
voice - only experience.
While there was a lot of hype surrounding the arrival of Samsung's digital
assistant Bixby, with the firm going so far as to
dedicate a whole button for it on its latest Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 +
devices, there are still elements to Bixby that are not working, with the company having so far failed to deliver a fully functional
voice companion outside of Korea.