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?
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(Score: 1) by tedd on Tuesday August 27 2019, @10:56PM (2 children)
Trawlermen [imdb.com] subtitled most fishermen, and they were speaking English, so..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 27 2019, @11:35PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 28 2019, @01:30AM
Wouldn't it be simpler if British people simply learn to speak English?
(ducks, hides under desk)
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.