The assistant also has memory, allowing it to store information on the device—meeting notes, addresses, a child’s age and preferences—and turn them into reminders or to-do items. Users can ask questions like “Which seat was I in on last week’s train?” or “Where was that café I liked near the office?”
It’s a leap up from older voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri, which operate in such a way that the responses can suffer from a lag and a lack of emotional nuances. In these systems, speech is recorded, turned into text and sent to a server for analysis, and the response is then read aloud by a separate text-to-speech tool. ByteDance’s AI, by contrast, uses a speech-to-speech system that allows for faster answers and even for the user to interrupt the assistant mid-sentence—much in the same the way you might interrupt a friend or a co-worker.
Oh yeah. What I want from a phone is emotional nuance. I've had Apple phones since 2007, and I've used Siri about three times. And I think it's a very poor idea to let your phone spend money without asking you if it's okay. I know, I know, I'm old...
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