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What The Future Of Smart Home Voice Control Looks Like

For her part, Parks Associates research director Barbara Kraus expects voice control will likely spread to all manner of consumer electronics in homes, cars and on the go. But “at this time, voice technology still has a ways to go. Voice recognition tests well in the lab, but it is a different situation in the real world. There is background noise, there are words that sound alike, there are accents and colloquialisms.”

From the article "What The Future Of Smart Home Voice Control Looks Like" by Joseph Palenchar.

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