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"Users of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant conceptualize them in one of 3 ways: an interface, a personal assistant, or a brain. Frequent users are less likely to push the interaction limits of these AI systems than new users."

"[...] Google Assistant s'est enrichi d' une nouvelle fonction baptisée « conversation continue »." "Une « conversation continue » déjà sur Alexa"

podcast CES France Info sur les assistants vocaux français Linto, Vivoka et Snips questions sur la conception... pour des assistants vocaux "gafam free" Linto & Snips btb pour l'instant Vivoka : btbtc (hôtels)

"Selon Google, la nouvelle version de Google Assistant pourra répondre 10 fois plus vite à une commande vocale. Il sera même possible d'interagir avec l'assistant personnel tout en naviguant entre plusieurs applications, sans dire à chaque fois "OK Google". L'algorithme pourra plus facilement faire la différence entre l'action et le message que vous voulez dicter. [...] Les autres appareils Android munis de Google Assistant pourront, eux, attendre l'arrivée d'un Mode Conduite ainsi que des Références Personnelles. Cette dernière fonctionnalité permet à l'algorithme de mieux comprendre les requêtes du type "Que se passe là où habite maman ?". À noter que ces fonctionnalités seront prise en charge directement sur l'appareil et non les serveurs de Google." "Google utilise désormais sa marque Nest pour ses appareils domotiques. [...] Google a mis en place des mesures pour garantir votre vie privée. Selon les intervenants du Google I/O, une LED indique quand la caméra fonctionne. Aucun flux vidéo ne sera par ailleurs mis en ligne ou enregistré sans le consentement de l'utilisateur. Comme les autres produits connectés à Google Assistant, celui-ci proposera Voice Match : l'assistant vocal distingue les différentes personnes de votre maison selon leur voix. Avec la caméra embarquée, Google Assistant pourra également vous différencier selon vos visages. Google appelle cette nouvelle fonction Face Match. " "Pour améliorer l'accessibilité de ses produits, Google lance donc le projet Euphonia. Il vise à faciliter l'interaction des personnes sourdes, muettes ou souffrant d'un trouble du langage avec leurs smartphones ou enceintes connectées."

"Qu'est-ce qu'un assistant personnel ? Comment s'intègre-t-il dans les enceintes intelligentes connectées d'aujourd'hui ? En quoi est-il capable de nous assister ? Comment l'avancée technologique tend peu à peu à nous faire oublier que la machine en est une ?"

"Dr. Lam is collaborating with a group of Stanford faculty members and students to build a virtual assistant that would allow individuals and corporations to avoid surrendering personal information as well as retain a degree of independence from giant technology companies." ... "The Stanford researchers are hoping to gain support by making their software freely available to users of smartphones, computers and consumer appliances. They are encouraging makers of consumer products to connect their devices to the Almond virtual assistant through a Wikipedia-style service they call Thingpedia. It is a shared database in which any manufacturer or internet service could specify how its product or service would interact with the Almond virtual assistant."

"F'xa is built with feminists values in mind and every response given holds up to feminist beliefs that avoid reinforcing bias and stereotypes. F'xa was created by a diverse team using the Feminist Internet's Personal Intelligent Assistant Standards and Josie Young's Feminist Chatbot Design research. In preparation for building F'xa, Young explored contemporary feminist techniques for designing technology called the Feminist Chatbot Design Process - a series of reflective questions incorporating feminist design, ethical AI principles, and research on de-biasing data. Using a smartphone, the bot works to ensure designers don't perpetuate gender inequalities into their chatbots and educates users on how current voice assistants give gender equality a bleak future. "

"Le cabinet de conseil en stratégie Roland Berger et le spécialiste de la transformation numérique Viseo ont rendu public mercredi 17 juillet 2019 un état des lieux de l'adoption des assistants vocaux par les Français. Verdict : si près d'un tiers de la population les a déjà utilisés, la France reste en retard sur les Etats-Unis. La tendance en leur faveur devrait néanmoins s'accélérer avec le développement de nouveaux cas d'usage B2B puis B2C… et à condition que les fabricants apportent des garanties sur la protection des données"

"Selon une étude de Médiamétrie, 3,2 millions de Français possèdent un assistant vocal de type Google Home ou Amazon Echo. Une progression importante de la part du marché français qui semblait jusqu'ici un peu frileux."

"Programmer le GPS, lancer une playlist sur une application de streaming, changer la température de la climatisation sont autant de possibilités pour ne pas avoir à quitter la route des yeux. " "Connected Lab, qui travaille avec de grandes marques de l'informatique sur l'expérience utilisateur, estime ainsi que réfléchir à une formulation correcte pour déclencher une action de la part d'un assistant vocal tout en conduisant n'est pas forcément plus sûr que de saisir les informations sur l'écran de bord." "Ensuite, se pose la question de la duplication des commandes. Quel est l'intérêt de dicter une action quand il est possible de faire la manipulation en trois clics à partir de menus que l'on connaît par cœur ? Tant que l'on ne sera pas en mesure de parler de manière naturelle aux assistants, ce système à double entrée perdurera."

"First, when you ask questions like "Hey Google, how do you keep my data safe?" the Assistant will share information about how we keep your data private and secure. We're also making it easier to control your privacy with simple voice commands. In the coming weeks, you'll be able to delete Assistant activity from your Google Account just by saying things like "Hey Google, delete the last thing I said to you" or "Hey Google, delete everything I said to you last week." You won't need to turn on any of these features-they will work automatically when you ask the Assistant for help. If you ask to delete more than a week's worth of data from your account, the Assistant will point you directly to the page in your account settings to complete the deletion. We're rolling this out in English next week, and in all other languages next month."

"Parental supervision via voice assistant won't be limited to what happens at home. Amazon announced that it will roll out new Alexa education skills in partnership with education tech companies like Blackboard, Canvas, and Coursera. Students, and their parents, will shortly be able to ask Alexa about homework or for updates posted by teachers on those platforms to stay up to date on classroom activities." "Amazon wants to increase its market share among children, and make them loyal to the voice assistant at an early age. But with children, parents are the gatekeepers. It remains to be seen if the family-friendly features and increased transparency are enough for parents to trust Alexa interacting with their children after the many privacy breaches. If successful, it could set the template for how voice assistant developers approach the market for the younger audience. Still, there's no guarantee any of it will be enough to appease worried parents or head off the kind of regulation Amazon and other voice assistant makers want to limit."

" Apple et Google ont annoncé tour à tour mettre en pause leurs programmes d'analyse des enregistrements provenant des requêtes formulées par les utilisateurs à leurs assistants vocaux Siri et Google Assistant. Une suspension qui s'appliquera pendant trois mois au sein de l'Union européenne pour Google, et de manière plus définitive et mondiale pour Apple. "

"In the past year, natural language models have become dramatically better at the expense of getting dramatically bigger. [...] In response, many researchers are focused on shrinking the size of existing models without losing their capabilities. [...] In addition to improving access to state-of-the-art AI, tiny models will help bring the latest AI advancements to consumer devices. They avoid the need to send consumer data to the cloud, which improves both speed and privacy. For natural-language models specifically, more powerful text prediction and language generation could improve myriad applications like autocomplete on your phone and voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant."

Face aux Gafam, que peut la France sur le marché des Assistants vocaux? Des briques technologiques mais limité par la question de l'entraînement des modèles.

"The UNESCO report asks developers to design a neutral machine gender for voice assistants, which are programmed to discourage gender-based insults. Technology firms should also emphasise to the public that voice assistants are non-human." https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000367416.page=1

"In her talk, called "Memoirs of Geisha: Building AI without gender bias," [Laura Andina, a Product Manager at Telefonica Digital] explained AI's gender bias by taking a look at Apple's pioneering of skeuomorphic design - a design method that replicates what a product would look like in real-life, as well as taking into account how the physical product would be used." "Receptionists, customer service representatives, and assistants have traditionally been female-dominated careers. Women have had to be helpful, friendly, and patient because it's their job. The skeuomorphic design of an AI assistant therefore would be female. For Andina, it's essential to break these gender biases in design to be able to make real-world changes. If new technology would stop peddling old stereotypes, women would have an easier time moving up the ranks professionally without being cast as assistants or any other "helpful" stereotype." "To avoid hardwiring sexism and gender bias into our future, one possible solution, according to Andina, would be providing a genderless voice for AI technology. But it won't be easy to make - most genderless voices sound too robotic. Human-sounding voices are more trustworthy, so this could deter users."

Voice assistants : use cases for banking (Capgemini)

"While people are certainly enthusiastic about the new technology, it's not exactly life-changing yet." [...] "There's always been a tendency to force the 'old' onto the 'new' when it comes to emerging technology platforms - the first ads on television, for example, were essentially radio ads, read out loud," Until we find the app, use-case or invention that could only be possible using voice, we're still just repurposing online content for your ears."

"The perfect environments for a voice assistant are settings where users want to perform a variety of tasks while keeping their attention on their surroundings, like augmented and virtual reality applications."