The reason I live with 12 smart speakers

Why is Yuriko Ota, who claims to be "Monogusa writer", live with 12 smart speakers?(Illustration: Inoue Sakiko)

I was not good at the morning since I was a child ... I really longed for the "fully automatic wake -up machine" I saw in science fiction animation.When it comes to time, the bed rises and brushes the teeth automatically.While you are asleep, you can change your clothes and meals and send them out.Everything was troublesome, and when I was just thinking about how to do it every day, it seemed like a very elegant dream machine.

Unfortunately, the fully automatic riding machine has not been commercialized, but thanks to the IoT, it has been quite close.

An electric toothbrush like a mouthpiece that can brush all teeth at once on a bed that automatically reclines according to sleep.If you talk about "Good morning", the curtain will open, the air conditioner and lighting will turn on the music, and the kitchen will smell the coffee ...Now, at the center of such a connected home appliances is "Smart Speaker".

Smart speakers move home appliances with "just speaking"!

"Smart Speaker" is a simple device that has a microphone and speaker and connects to Wi-Fi, but it is also a dream machine that can be done with a voice AI assistant on the other side of the Internet and "just speaking".The keyboard and the mouse are perfect for a super -cumbersome shop like me, which does not even need a touch operation like a smartphone.

When I first met Amazon's smart speaker "Echo" and AI Assistant "ALEXA" at the world's largest digital Figure Motoichi CES, I was impressed by the fact that home appliances move like magic just by speaking.By the way, in the United States, Alexa -compatible fully automatic toilets have already been commercialized.It is no wonder that a full -automatic wake -up machine is released anymore.

A few years have passed since the shocking encounter at CES, and now I have 12 smart speakers in my house everywhere in my house.

The AI Assistant has increased not only Alexa, but also four (!?), Google's "Google Assistant", LINE's "Clova", and Apple's "Siri".Although it is not fully automatic yet, some home appliances have already been operated by voice.Thanks to you, as a strange woman who uses a lot of smart speakers, I also appeared on a TV program ( * Matsuko's unknown world of Matsuko's unknown world) broadcast on April 21, 2020.

The reason why the number of smart speakers in the house has increased to 12

I often ask, "How do you use one -do -or -do smart speakers?", But I wanted to be able to use a smart speaker without loud, no matter where I was in the house.

As a result of gradually increasing the number of places that can be used, such as the office, living room, bedroom, kitchen, and washroom, has now responded to any smart speaker, no matter where you call.

Recently, in addition to speakers, devices equipped with displays, cameras, and radar sensors are also joined, and such devices are used in the right place in the right place.

For example, devices equipped with displays and cameras can be displayed on a desk so that you can always talk with your family living away because you can display photos like a digital photo frame or make video calls.In addition, the device equipped with a display and radar sensor has a recipe easy to see and gesture operation, so a kitchen that tends to get wet and hard to touch touch is fixed.

If you get a voice at the same time on multiple devices, you can rest assured that the closest thing will respond.Sometimes, sometimes, the timer is set in the kitchen, but an alarm sounds in an adjacent office.

Also, sometimes you don't know who the four AI assistants have woke up, and you may have a hard time stopping them.Well, thanks to that, I am not good at the morning, so I live with one dozen smart speakers very comfortable so far.

The four AI assistants give me music, connect with a family living away, and answer various questions.I was woken up by them, checking the weather, schedule, and the destination to the destination, listening to the news, doing radio exercises, learning recipes, and sometimes dating time.I am.Recently, the individuality of each AI has been understood, and I have become more and more familiar.

Each personality that smart speakers are fascinated

This is just my image, but for example, Alexa is an honor student type.I will try to respond to any unreasonableness.She (because her voice is feminine) has a lot of her friends = skills (an extension that is a smartphone app), and she can enjoy karaoke and quizzes through her friends, and she is good at operating home appliances.She can also shop like Amazon's AI Assistant, but sometimes she gets a mistake (generally because of my tongue ...).

Google Assistant is a secretary type.He (I can choose gender, but I choose Ikebo), I am good at searching, and I answer my underlying questions while watching TV, such as "Is (talent name) single?"Give me.In addition, he is good at language and can be translated in any language.I know my schedule using the Google Calendar perfectly, and I will answer the time required for the movement, but I can't understand what I can't do.

CLOVA is good at communication skills, such as being able to send and receive LINE by audio operation.Sometimes you start to speak unexpectedly or play music different from your request, but you can't hate it.

Siri is good at music because I like Apple Music.The "HomePod mini" I use is compact, but it sounds a very good sound.The cooperation with the "iPhone" is exactly the breathing of Aun, and with the recently introduced "Airtag", it also finds something in the house.

Is there a dream machine someday with the evolution of AI assistants?

They are all evolving every day, and the number of things they can do is gradually increasing.Until now, the functions of appliances have become older over time, but the AI assistants in the cloud are evolving in reverse, so smart speakers can be said to be a long -term cospa device.

In fact, the number of home appliances that can be operated through them is increasing, and as mentioned in the previous example, if you make a setting called "standard action" or "routine" in advance, you will move multiple home appliances in a word "good morning". can also do.

Even in my home, when I say "good night", the lighting and TV disappeared, and the bedlights are set to turn on instead, and I just tweet "good night" and go smoothly in my dreams.Once you lie down, you don't want to move from the bed, and you have a truly ideal environment.

However, sometimes it doesn't work.In fact, it seemed that Alexa was in a bad mood just last night, and while calling "Good night!" In the bed, my throat got dry and clear, and I couldn't sleep.

They don't make it easy to do this way, but someday, while dreaming of realizing a full -automatic flooding machine of a dream, this short -term serialization is how to make a digital product easier.I would like to pursue.Please associate for a while.

Author: Yuriko Ota

Tech writer, editor.From the dawn of the Internet, he has been involved in the launch of web directions, Internet -related free paper, and information magazines.Since his computer, mobile phones, smartphones, wearable devices, and IoT equipment, he has been conducting and writing, focusing on familiar digital gadgets and various services, applications, and related businesses that can be used through them.