Voice activated services are increasingly prevalent, but why are they not always as accurate as we would like them to be?
While technology is always improving, inaccuracies remain problematic and occasionally comical, from misunderstandings to context errors, with the latter being a particular annoyance in office environments.
In addition, the human factor will always be hard to interpret, especially when it comes to accents or rare pronunciations, not to mention the irritation of hearing colleagues’ messages when they are dictating emails.
What is the ideal human-computer interface, or will we eventually rely on thought transmission directly to the computer, as some AI systems are already training us for?
