Alex Capecelatro, the CEO of Josh.ai, a company that builds a voice interface for custom integrators, points out that with voice, there are two layers of communication. Google’s or Amazon’s voice assistant would have hooks into these libraries that consumers set up. A digital assistant doesn’t even need to be as good as the lifelong admin who surreptitiously makes life easier for his boss. A digital assistant also needs to understand the purpose of those locations and common elements such as lighting, temperature etc. This means any digital assistant will require access to sensors in those places (something Matter will help democratize).

Source: Washington Post November 24, 2022 14:24 UTC