by wunderlust on 3/8/22, 12:49 AM with 7 comments
Does this product exist?
Is privacy compatible with a "smart" speaker?
by sircastor on 3/8/22, 2:01 AM
by websap on 3/8/22, 12:58 AM
by rektide on 3/8/22, 1:03 AM
I don't think there are any notable products that compete with Google Home. Google Home is a very big tent operation, with a vast array of devices from all manners of companies under it. Trying to imagine where we'd start at building products against that is almost unimaginable.
Instead, look to protocols. What protocols might be created that could allow communities & ecosystems to start up? Chromecast itself was built on an open protocol, DIAL[1], spearheaded by Netflix, for taking over screens. Today, the web has a very successful protocol the Presentation API[2], that allows for sending content to screens/speakers about us. Currently the proprietary Chromecast protocol is the primary & perhaps only implementation of this. The same Secondary Screen Working Group has however shipped a draft[3]- a year ago- of Open Screen Protocol, an service providing interface for devices to expose & consumers to push content to the devices from, which is an open, intercompatible way of making the Presentation API happen.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_Launch
by daviddever23box on 3/8/22, 12:30 PM
by gwoplock on 3/8/22, 1:00 AM
by wirelessalcohol on 3/8/22, 9:13 AM
Can we please give them their real name, "smart microphones".
Disturbing when you spell it out like that isn't it?
(Alexa = Amazons microphone)