We've released an app for Google Assistant – It’s a great start but a long way from perfect. But it's the absolute minimum PSM should do to provide this as a service. We need an easy, human centered user design experience and a forgiving search. The first area – Available – is of course the obvious one – everything that we produce should easily be available on the assistants. Swedish Radio is trying to develop in three different areas for the voice area: Available, Augmented and Adapted. So with this development, we see this as a starting point for us to really focus! If you are lucky it will suggest Doctor P3 (DR P3)!īut this is about to change – one month ago Google Assistant was released in Swedish, and Google Home will follow later this year. You will probably be served a playlist from Spotify called El´s Cow. Good luck trying to make Alexa play the show “P3 Älskar”. In Sweden vox devices have been available for sale for about a year in certain web-shops and Swedish Radio (SR) have done great experiments building apps and skills for them, but they have only been able to speak English – a situation that is really not optimal for a Swedish radio company. A feeling of a natural, more human friendly interface that will shift the whole eco-system for us as a radio company, a feeling that you could access the net, as well as hardware in a completely new way. I still remember the truly awesome feeling for the first time being able to control my sound system at home with merely with my voice. And the really cool thing is that it is almost impossible to predict how this will develop. I think the area of voice is most certainly one of those mind blasting giant leaps. So wouldn´t it be great to have something really mind blowing? Sure, thing move on, but it is a feeling that it is iteration of previous stuff.Īnd sure -sometime you see really giant leaps, like an iPay, or a Spotify, a Chromecast or on a smaller scale- a Shazam, but they are rare in the big picture.
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I mean – you still hunt for WIFI, you still have an account-chaos with one million passwords, storage is still an issue, you are still being shut down when updating a computer, bluetooth is still used as a standard (!), battery time is still a question for a developers conference and Skype is still unbelievably insanely hard to understand. The irritating feeling that you already know what you want to see being developed and that you have to wait a few years more to see it become real. It´s like nothing really groundbreaking ever happens. The last couple of years I´ve had this weird mixed feeling that the world around us is changing extremely fast, but the innovation pace is super slow if you zoom in.
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In the first of a new series of personal blogs from our Members on digital transformation, Swedish Radio's Tomas Granryd, Chairman of the EBU's VOX Group, looks at voice controlled devices and how public service media needs to lead the way in developing practical and valuable uses for them.
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