Monday, August 20, 2018
Researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Maryland have collaborated with the Comcast Applied AI Research Lab to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of the Comcast Xfinity X1 entertainment platform.
Today, we have become accustomed to talking to intelligent agents that do our bidding — from Siri on a mobile phone to Alexa at home. Why wouldn’t we be able to do the same with TVs? Comcast’s Xfinity X1 does exactly that — the platform comes with a “voice remote” that accepts spoken queries. Your wish is its command — tell your TV to change channels, ask it about free kids’ movies, and even about the weather forecast.
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