AI
Amazon Alexa and Google Home fall short of real conversation
Start-ups seek to move from speech recognition to true language understanding.
Talking to a computer can feel liberating — as anyone who received an Amazon Alexa or Google Home device for Christmas can attest — but only until you ask the wrong question and the machine plays dumb.
Advances in speech recognition, which lie behind the "natural" feel of voice assistants like Alexa, number among the biggest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past five years.
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