Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Integrating a smart assistant in the living room is still too complicated

Now that we have had a few years to live with smart speakers in our kitchens, the next place for them to go is the living room. That’s not an especially hard thing to do: just buy an Echo Dot or a Google Home Mini (or a more expensive speaker), put it on your end table, and you’re done.

Except... not really. The living room is also the place where you usually find what used to be the two most important gadgets in your home: the television and the sound system. Getting Alexa or Google Assistant hooked up to those systems ends up being a bit more complicated. Just having a speaker in your living room is fine, but you really would prefer better sound quality. And your TV is a massive flat-paneled opportunity for these assistants to become...

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