{"id":67437,"date":"2019-06-19T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67437"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T14:14:32","slug":"tech-giants-believe-that-voice-is-as-big-as-touchscreen-wynter-elwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/06\/19\/tech-giants-believe-that-voice-is-as-big-as-touchscreen-wynter-elwood\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tech giants believe that voice is as big as touchscreen&#8230;&#8221; [Wynter Elwood]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do you have a virtual personal assistant? With <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VoiceAssistants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VoiceAssistants<\/a> we might get time back to do what we want to do. Tech giants believe that voice is as big as touchscreen and will invest a lot in the further development. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Microsoft?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Google?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Google<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPqkKyiPT3\">https:\/\/t.co\/uPqkKyiPT3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IjeVn5Af4p\">pic.twitter.com\/IjeVn5Af4p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wynter (@WynterElwood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WynterElwood\/status\/1140684118700593152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1614991\/microsoft-is-building-a-virtual-assistant-for-work-google-is-building-one-for-everything-else\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Microsoft is building a virtual assistant for work. Google is building one for everything else<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from qz.com by Dave Gershgorn<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the early days of virtual personal assistants, the goal was to create a multipurpose digital buddy\u2014always there, ready to take on any task. Now, tech companies are realizing that doing it all is too much, and instead doubling down on what they know best.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSince the company has a deep understanding of how organizations work, Microsoft is focusing on managing your workday with voice, rearranging meetings and turning the dials on the behemoth of bureaucracy in concert with your phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Voice is the next major platform, and being first to it is an opportunity to make the category as popular as Apple made touchscreens. To dominate even one aspect of voice technology is to tap into the next iteration of how humans use computers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>What affordances might these developments provide for our future learning spaces?<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Will faculty members&#8217; voices be recognized to:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Sign onto the LMS?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Dim the lights?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Turn on the projector(s) and\/or display(s)?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Other?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will students be able to send the contents of their mobile devices to particular displays via their voices?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will voice be mixed in with augmented reality (i.e., the students and their devices can &#8220;see&#8221; which device to send their content to)?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hmmm&#8230;time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a virtual personal assistant? With #VoiceAssistants we might get time back to do what we want to do. Tech giants believe that voice is as big as touchscreen and will invest a lot in the further development. #Microsoft #Google https:\/\/t.co\/uPqkKyiPT3 pic.twitter.com\/IjeVn5Af4p \u2014 Wynter (@WynterElwood) June 17, 2019 &nbsp; \u00a0Also see: Microsoft is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,354,472,322,356,817,115,302,112,200,63,391,419,180,482,64,102,7,559,87,216,14,245,23,821,309,196,66,50,40,460,195,118,206,321,214,156,312,367,822,49,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-active-learning","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-google","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-it-in-he","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-spaces","category-microsoft","category-mobile-learning","category-mobile-technologies","category-multimedia","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces","category-web-based-collaboration","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67437"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67445,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67437\/revisions\/67445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}