How Does Voice Technology Work?
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5 min readNov 21, 2019
“Ok Google,” I said to my Honor 9 phone running Android Pie. “How much does the Valve Index retail for?” I asked. The Google Assistant app said $999, while displaying a paragraph of text with the cost of the Valve Index, taken from an article on The Verge .
Over the next few days, I experimented with the Google Assistant app, asking it to tell me a joke, whether it thinks it’s conscious (it doesn’t), whether…