{"id":1885,"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/do-you-want-to-text-or-talk-to-appliances\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"do-you-want-to-text-or-talk-to-appliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/do-you-want-to-text-or-talk-to-appliances\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want to Text or Talk to Appliances?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The voice-control market is seeing explosive growth in the smart home-arena. From Amazon\u2019s Echo to Google\u2019s Home, more homeowners are taking control over their homes, using their voice to speak commands to their home\u2019s appliances.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/strong>: ‘Empowered’ Appliances Link Home, Internet<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But some manufacturers are starting to question whether the appeal in the smart-home arena is really voice-controlled or possibly text-controlled.<\/p>\n

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg has been working on Jarvis, his own voice-controlled AI home automation system, and said he preferred communicating by text to his home than by voice. \u201cIt feels less disturbing to people around me,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Several major appliance makers are experimenting with text messages to appliances, everything from texts like \u201cstart the coffee machine\u201d to \u201cpreheat the oven to 200 degrees at 6:30 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Think of it as a universal translator between the languages that machines speak … and us humans,” said Toby Ruckert, CEO of Unified Inbox, which offers<\/a> a service that can handle text messages to appliances. Besides controlling devices like ovens and kettles, the company is also testing text messaging to other home systems like door locks, garage openers, window blinds, toasters, and garden sprinklers, Ruckert says.<\/p>\n

“People aren’t going to want a different interface for all the different appliances in their home,” says Jason Jameson with IBM, which is pairing its Watson AI supercomputer with Unified Inbox to better understand user messages. “The common denominator is the smartphone, and even more common is the messaging app.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: \u201cSmart Condo Conundrum: Talk to Appliances, or Text Them?\u201d Reuters (March 12, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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