Source: Houston Chronicle
by Emily Kuder
“Every morning as I’m making my daughter’s school lunch, I loudly and clearly ask, ‘OK Google, what’s the weather like today?’ Our Google Home Assistant dutifully reports the precipitation patterns and expected temperatures. Now that our lives are equipped with ‘smart’ gadgets, things are easier than ever — right? In reality, voice recognition software often falls short in serving the needs of its users, particularly those of us who speak more than one language. … Ideally, speech-processing software would function within the multilingual reality of our globalized world, but we’re not there yet.” (01/02/25)