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Although creating virtual assistants has long been a dream of the speech and natural language technology community—realized with the commercial launches of Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa over a decade ago—these technologies have ultimately failed to achieve ubiquity or widespread adoption. The question is, why? In this blog post, I’ll explore the reasons behind this…
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This is a re-posting of my editorial on the latest ICSI’s Newsletter. W. Brian Arthur, in his book The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, describes the evolution of technology as a combinatorial process. Each new technology consists in a combination of existing technologies that “beget further technologies.” Moreover, each technology
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One of the first multimodal interaction systems, dubbed Put-that-there, was built at the MIT Architecture Machine lab in the late 1970s by Chris Schmandt, who is now the director of the Speech and Mobility Group at MIT Media Labs. Here is a demo from 1979, where you see the integration of speech and gesture recognition to
THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE 