Comcast Connected Home Voice Control Work Challenging, Work in Progress, It Blogs
Adding connected home control to Comcast’s X1 voice remote is a “work in progress” because “we’ll never really be done,” said Bryan Kissinger, digital home product management, in a Monday blog post about expanding the X1 voice remote to the…
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smart home. The cable ISP last month announced new voice commands for home automation and security, enabling customers to adjust temperature by saying “Xfinity Home, I’m cold,” or to change colors of smart bulbs. It added a “guard word” -- Xfinity Home -- for connected home commands, for instance, to ensure the platform didn’t search for a movie or song called “disarm” when a customer wanted to disengage the security system, Kissinger said. A new voice team is building voice integrations for connected home commands. While Xfinity Home is a mouthful, Kissinger said part of the power of the X1 voice remote is that a trigger word isn’t required. A challenge, he said, is that “there are a lot of different ways you can say something.”