Great topic! I’ve been noodling on this for a while actually! Here’s my big 2
Smart user profiles - Most of the smart home solutions out there are able to identify the differences in voices and create separate user profiles already, but the idea would be to link those profiles to our app profiles as well (Hulu, Netflix, etc) so that using a voice command to launch an app will automatically access that users profile instead of taking you to the profile selection screen.
Device Specific Commands - Instead of using the generic wake word to tell the smart home to tell a specific named device what to do, you simply say the name of the device you would like to command followed by the command. So like, if you have a roomba vacuum, instead of saying “Alexa, tell iRobot home to have Roomba vacuum the kitchen” you would just say “roomba, vacuum the kitchen”.
Great topic! I’ve been noodling on this for a while actually! Here’s my big 2
Smart user profiles - Most of the smart home solutions out there are able to identify the differences in voices and create separate user profiles already, but the idea would be to link those profiles to our app profiles as well (Hulu, Netflix, etc) so that using a voice command to launch an app will automatically access that users profile instead of taking you to the profile selection screen.
Device Specific Commands - Instead of using the generic wake word to tell the smart home to tell a specific named device what to do, you simply say the name of the device you would like to command followed by the command. So like, if you have a roomba vacuum, instead of saying “Alexa, tell iRobot home to have Roomba vacuum the kitchen” you would just say “roomba, vacuum the kitchen”.
Device Specific Commands is really nice because it lessens the need for fragile interlinking between everything.