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posted by chromas on Tuesday August 27 2019, @10:12PM   Printer-friendly

BBC to launch digital voice assistant

The BBC is planning to launch a digital voice assistant next year, the corporation has announced. It will not be a hardware device in its own right but is being designed to work on all smart speakers, TVs and mobiles.

The plan is to activate it with the wake-word Beeb, although this is "a working title", a spokesman said. BBC staff around the UK are being invited to record their voices to help train the programme to recognise different accents.

[...] [The BBC] said that that having its own assistant would enable it to "experiment with new programmes, features and experiences without someone else's permission to build it in a certain way". "Much like we did with BBC iPlayer, we want to make sure everyone can benefit from this new technology, and bring people exciting new content, programmes and services - in a trusted, easy-to-use way," said a spokesman. "This marks another step in ensuring public service values can be protected in a voice-enabled future."

Do Brits understand Brits?

Also at TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget.


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  • (Score: 1) by tedd on Tuesday August 27 2019, @10:56PM (2 children)

    by tedd (1691) on Tuesday August 27 2019, @10:56PM (#886451)

    Trawlermen [imdb.com] subtitled most fishermen, and they were speaking English, so..

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 27 2019, @11:35PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 27 2019, @11:35PM (#886485) Journal

    Now look, she wants the Heki 2 roof lights, uh, the stylish ash frame furniture, and the scatter cushions with, uh, matching shag pile cover. Yeah. Right. And she's terrible partial to the periwinkle blue boys.

    pikey [youtu.be]
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:30AM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:30AM (#886571) Journal

    Wouldn't it be simpler if British people simply learn to speak English?

    (ducks, hides under desk)

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