Alexa is, for many of us, the best voice assistant among all that we have available today. And we do not detract from Google Assistant or Siri, the latter improves a little more every day, but the naturalness and above all how well it understands most of what is asked or said makes Alexa on another level. . The problem is that the next changes could make Alexa very irritating.
Alexa wants to guess what you want before you ask
One of the great alexa values, in addition to how your platform is implemented, your skills and compatibility with a large number of third-party devices and accessories, is the ability it offers when it comes to understanding what we are asking of it and his ability to respond correctly to what is said to him.
And no, with this we are not saying that it is perfect. There are times when it also messes up and it comes out where it shouldn't. But in general terms, the effort that Amazon has made during all these years has obtained a great result in terms of general use experience. That is why it is logical that many bet on it when it comes to betting on smart devices such as the Amazon Echo or other compatible models.
Now Alexa wants to go a little further and find a way to be able to anticipate your requests. How would I do this? Well, very easy, thanks to the use of machine learning algorithm Amazon's voice assistant would be able to deduce what might interest you and propose it to you. In other words, have a much more productive attitude than the one you already offer.
On the Amazon website, where they have announced all these news, different types of cases are explained and how Alexa would react. Thus, for example, a situation that they describe is one that places you in the kitchen preparing a tea, an infusion or any other recipe or dish of food. At that point you need to know something like how long does it take to cook an egg and you ask Alexa. The assistant will answer you and immediately afterwards it will suggest if you want it to create a timer with said time.
Of course, this is just an example, if you ask about other topics, it is likely that he will tell you if you want him to tell you something more related or even invite you to check how your knowledge on that topic is.
Amazon, be careful how you implement it
That's how interesting it sounds at first, because it would make Alexa more natural, but it also could be quite irritating. Because imagine that for each thing you ask him, he gives you a related proposal. It would be like the typical co-worker who does not stop asking questions without knowing if you really want to talk about it or not or if you just wanted to know something on time and that's it.
Therefore, although obtaining new skills that help the user to know even better everything Alexa is capable of It's great, if they are not implemented well they can make everything they have earned during these years go to waste. We hope that doesn't happen, but if right off the bat Alexa is a bit more inquisitive than before, that she proposes things you've never heard of, etc., you know why.
Luckily (or unfortunately) all these novelties reach the English market first. So if the experience there is not satisfactory, they will not be implemented for other languages in which Alexa can speak. Something good had to have not being the first, right?