If you use an Alexa, Google Home or Siri I am sure you’ve had those moments of pure frustration when it just won’t understand you.

Will this ever get better?

In the next two videos you’ll get a glimpse of what’s to come, and I’ll try to explain why this is so important and significant.

The Future of Voice Interfaces

Voice interfaces using a natural type of conversational language, commonly known as Natural Language Processing (“NLP”) have a lot to offer, but there’s still a lot to do to make it ubiquitously useful.

Back at the turn of the century I was working with a domestic referral agency Vodafone and a very well known luxury car manufacturer to try to voice-enable a car. It was a disaster, to be honest. It simply was so unreliable and frustrating that it was deemed to be more of a distraction than a use.

Today things have progressed a lot further, but the percentage of frustrating and failed interactions with Siri or Alexa I have is still way too high to be reliable.

Watch the videos below to get a glimpse of what the future of voice interfaces could be.

NVIDIA’s Jarvis shows us what the future of voice interfaces could be

Why is this video so very significant?

Once you’ve watched this, watch mine below and I’ll try to put this in context.