Voice Control Challenges Include Set-Tops, Security, Says Voice-Based Automation Executive
Voice technology came a long way since Bell Labs developed the first speech recognition technology in 1952, said Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai, a voice-based home automation company, at the Home Technology Specialists of America Tuesday in Orlando. Challenges remain.…
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Set-top boxes don’t send out status, so if someone asks to watch ESPN, the box won’t give a success message “because [manufacturers'] argument is they just have the TV do the thing you ask for,” he said. Without such a message, a TV won’t turn on automatically, and “the system’s not going to be intelligent,” he said: Josh.ai is working to integrate with a cable company. Security vulnerabilities when information is processed in the cloud could lead to hacking. “There’s no such thing as a non-hackable home or a non-hackable solution,” Capecelatro said: “Unfortunately, that’s a reality we need to address” as an industry.