>I use my Alexa all the time, but 99% of it is:
Alexa, time! Alexa, set an alarm for 5 minutes! Alexa how many minutes left? Alexa, turn off/on all the lights!
That's also why Siri is good enough even though it is destroyed in a trivia contest against Google or Amazon.
Voice UI is very bad since you don't have a way to know what it can do reliably. Treating it as general artificial intelligence doesn't work because the experience feels like trying to get a really stupid person do something for you. It's much easier to do it yourself than to find a sentence structure that works for this particular request but not for others.
Voice UI is only good for basic commands that you know the device is capable of.
even commands that used to work will suddenly stop working. "turn off office lights" no longer works because "office lamp" suddenly got precedence over "office room" and im too lazy to rename everything to accomodate Google
That's also why Siri is good enough even though it is destroyed in a trivia contest against Google or Amazon.
Voice UI is very bad since you don't have a way to know what it can do reliably. Treating it as general artificial intelligence doesn't work because the experience feels like trying to get a really stupid person do something for you. It's much easier to do it yourself than to find a sentence structure that works for this particular request but not for others.
Voice UI is only good for basic commands that you know the device is capable of.