Amazon, please help me meet one of my life goals

[thistle_chaser]

There are many things from the Star Trek world that would be life-changing to have now. Transporters (visit your family around the world without wasting a day on an airplane!), food replicators (OMG I've dreamed about them so much. Whatever food you want! And I bet they could make it as low calorie as you want! Any food in the world!), and the

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[adam_0oo]

I am fascinated to see where this goes. One of the problems with Google Voice and Siri is that they just haven't licked the background noise problem, so I can't use them at all if I ever leave the house. Alexa though, is in the house always, so it really ups your chances to use it.

Still, still, if you spend all your time being "No Alexa, what I meant was...", but voice recognition has no where to go but up, and every word it hears makes it smarted and better at what it does.

[thistle_chaser]

I'm fascinated as well. There are some issues that I didn't go into in my post:

- When you activate it, it listens to everything going on, not just your voice. Some people are questioning what kind of information Amazon might be collecting.
- Apparently the whole point of it is to push you towards shopping on Amazon (being made by Amazon, that's not all that surprising). So when you say 'buy flour', it will only look on Amazon's site.

I'm not exactly sure it would be worth $100 for me, but I'm willing to take the chance. I use timers all the time (while cooking) and it would be nice just to say it out loud instead of setting the microwave. I always question my spelling on lots of words, so it would be great to say "Computer, how do you spell..." instead of pausing to google it. But like you said, if you have to fumble with the voice recognition, then a lot of the usefulness goes out the window.

[orangerful]

I'm sure someone out there is already working on a mod/hack to make it respond to "computer" and also use Majel Barrett's voice. I mean, what are nerds for???

[thistle_chaser]

I sure do hope so!

[postingwhore]

Why is it safe to assume that animals can't become zombies? :p

[thistle_chaser]

In most stories I've seen/read, they can't be made into zombies. I like the ones best where they can. Animal zombies are the best zombies!

[postingwhore]

It just doesn't make sense that they can't be made into zombies! :P Man, what illogical worldbuilding (imo).

[thistle_chaser]

Agreed, I think all mammals should be able to get it.