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What's On Center Stage at the CES Tech Show? Your Voice (apnews.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Some of the most popular gadgets over the holiday season were smart speakers with digital assistants from Amazon and Google. Apple is coming out with its own speaker this year; Microsoft and Samsung have partnered on another. As the annual CES gadget show kicks off in Las Vegas this week, manufacturers are expected to unveil even more voice-controlled devices -- speakers and beyond -- as Amazon and Google make their digital assistants available on a wider array of products. If these prove popular, you'll soon be able to order around much more of your house, including kitchen appliances, washing machines and other devices.

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  1. Order? by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "If these prove popular, you'll soon be able to order around much more of your house, including kitchen appliances, washing machines and other devices."

    IOW an AW.

    Artificial Wife.

    1. Re:Order? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Funny

      Artificial Wife.

      No, that is completely backwards. With these new devices, you tell THEM what to do.

  2. Too Many People In Too Small A Space by mallyn · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Too many people in too small of a space.

    Lines for food, airline, hotel, are too long.

    Takes about 1/2 hour to get a taxi.

    Takes about 1 hour for taxi ride from Venetion to the convention center

    Los Vegas is not a good walking city.

    The convention staff act too much like cowboys treating us like cattle. The only thing missing are the whips.

    Lots of stuff that we will never see later.

    And finally, the unwashed masses!

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    Most Respectfully Yours Mark Allyn Bellingham, Washington
  3. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. by jabberw0k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and now "Speakers" are microphones.