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"Après les hôtels, Amazon élargit son offre B to B pour pousser l'adoption de ses enceintes connectées. Il s'agit cette fois-ci de la gestion des ressources humaines."

"-Smart speakers are not broadly useful-most users only use them for a few things-music, timers, alarms, and, in some cases, home automation scenarios. - Voice-only situations are limiting in cases where a visual or hybrid mode is required - media, entertainment, shopping, etc. - Engagement levels with third-party skills are very low (skills offer limited functionality and skills syntax is hard to remember). "I'm sorry, I don't know that" and other Alexa failures are no longer entertaining, but rather frustrating. Even Amazon acknowledges this [https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-alexa-kills-skills,news-28072.html] - Smart speakers are NOT ubiquitous-the speaker on my kitchen counter is not in my car nor in my office!" "Apps - do we need to reinvent the wheel?" "Most people already have their banking, communications, social networking, navigation, travel and payment apps in their smartphones. They already know how to use them (simple). They already know which ones to use for what purpose-Slack for work, WhatsApp for friends, Messenger for family (user choice). They've already registered and set them up and they provide control over what information goes where-for instance, their portfolio may be in their banking app, their contacts are on the phone. They know which app sees what data (privacy). They also trust apps to protect them and their data. Imagine a voice assistant platform that just allows users to use the apps they already use-on-the-go - anytime, anywhere-with simple voice commands, without having to register these service relationships again, and without waiting for the developers to have to reinvent the wheel to plug into the platform. We must embrace mobile app actions as first-class citizens. We should be able to do things in our mobile apps with simple voice commands. We must provide user choice and personalize user experience without registration and without compromising privacy and trust."

"Laurent [Chervet] started working on Project Alice two years ago, when Snips was first released. He wanted a way to build the ideal home assistant, and Snips was the perfect platform to do that with. It's a "private-by-design" voice service that can run completely offline, and so removes the concerns many people have about other services."

"Wikidata, an obscure sister project to Wikipedia, aims to (eventually) represent everything in the universe in a way computers can understand. Maintained by an army of volunteers, the database has come to serve an essential yet mostly unheralded purpose as AI and voice recognition expand to every corner of digital life. "Language depends on knowing a lot of common sense, which computers don't have access to," says Denny Vrandečić, who founded Wikidata in 2012. A programmer and regular Wikipedia editor, Vrandečić saw the need for a place where humans and bots could share knowledge on more equal terms."

8 feminist personal intelligent assistant prototypes Designing a Feminist Alexa Seminar UAL Creative Computing Institute and Feminist Internet > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyKdC37M20&t=876s

"Scotland Yard is developing new technology that would allow victims of crime to use voice-activated personal assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant, to contact the police. Under plans being drawn up by Britain's largest force, people would simply have to shout for help - and any compatible in-range technology would notify the police. "

"With the introduction of smart assistants that can interact with users, interactive fiction has been an intriguing possibility for game developers and publishers."

"[...] actuellement, Common Voice contiendrait 1 400 heures d'échantillons vocaux provenant de 42 000 contributeurs dans le monde, et couvrant 19 langues, dont l'anglais, le français, l'allemand, le farsi, le basque, le mandarin et le gaélique. Pour entraîner les IA, ces enregistrements sont accompagnés de métadonnées."

Le but ultime d'Amazon est de s'imposer dans « l'informatique d'ambiance » (« ambient computing »), dit-il, pas dans les assistants au sens strict. Après s'être attaqué à la maison, Amazon va s'attaquer à l'automobile, mais aussi aux interactions vocales sur le lieu de travail. Pour lui, les assistants vocaux qu'on utilise pour son smartphone ne rentrent pas dans ce cadre. Même si, bien sûr, c'est dans son intérêt de dire cela, car Google et Siri d'Apple sont, à la différence d'Alexa, pré-installés dans des centaines de millions de smartphones...

> HyperIntrusion ? "Un interrupteur Alexa et un miroir connecté chez Legrand Le groupe français Legrand est venu au CES avec deux nouveautés pour les particuliers. Tout d'abord, un interrupteur intégrant l'assistant vocal Alexa d'Amazon avec lequel les utilisateurs pourront commander des systèmes domotiques (thermostat, éclairage, volets roulants…) mais aussi lancer l'écoute de musique sur une enceinte, consulter la météo ou les actualités. L'interrupteur sera disponible à partir du mois de juin à 150 euros. Par ailleurs, Legrand s'est associé à CareOS pour développer un miroir connecté à partir duquel on peut, avec des gestes ou la voix, gérer l'éclairage et son intensité, contrôler la température de la pièce grâce à un thermostat connecté et accéder à une panoplie d'applications dédiées à la beauté et au bien-être, basées sur la reconnaissance faciale."

"[...]If you don't happen to work in the tech sector, you probably can't think about all the untapped potential in your Amazon Echo or Google Home without experiencing some misgivings. By now, most of us have grasped the dangers of allowing our most private information to be harvested, stored, and sold. We know how facial-recognition technologies have allowed authoritarian governments to spy on their own citizens; how companies disseminate and monetize our browsing habits, whereabouts, social-media interactions; how hackers can break into our home-security systems and nanny cams and steal their data or reprogram them for nefarious ends. Virtual assistants and ever smarter homes able to understand our physical and emotional states will open up new frontiers for mischief making. Despite the optimism of most of the engineers I've talked with, I must admit that I now keep the microphone on my iPhone turned off and my smart speakers unplugged when I don't plan to use them for a while.[...]"

"Dans la voiture de demain, la radio via la 5G et les réseaux mobiles permettront une meilleure interactivité. Elle pourrait se transformer en assistant vocal, tout comme le poste de télévision du salon. Apple, Alexa d'Amazon, Android de Google vont devenir des passages obligés. Il faut que l'audiovisuel puisse accéder aux services 5G des opérateurs télécoms, comme la SNCF ou Carrefour, et nous pouvons même imaginer une obligation adaptée pour ce secteur spécifique et tout ce qui touche à la culture et au pluralisme. En janvier, j'ai rencontré Franck Riester pour lui proposer d'intégrer dans sa loi audiovisuelle une réponse à la question des terminaux : comment garantir à Radio France qu'il n'est pas bloqué par iOS, Android ou Alexa sur une enceinte connectée ou dans la voiture ?"

"Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they're asleep without touching them. A new skill for a smart speaker - like Google Home and Amazon Alexa - or smartphone lets the device detect the gasping sound of agonal breathing and call for help. "

Demo Alexa