A speaker argues that voice interfaces like Alexa have stalled and developers aren't pushing hard enough. Real people's lives have changed through voice technology, so the stakes for better design are personal, not just commercial.
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I think one of the things that I'm always challenged with is the fact that people, they don't push the edge, right? Like, we are looking at Alexa and it just kind of seems the same. The experiences are the same. There's not a whole lot of evolution. And so today I wanted to just tap a little bit into the creativity of people and really just think, what bothers us? Like, what's wrong? And so one of the things I loved about my talk today, and I had a couple of people come up to me afterwards and comment on it, was that it's a real human story, right? Like, I have people in my life that are literally, their lives were transformed with voice.