Siri will intelligently suggest a few based on your location and preferences. Say you want to make a restaurant reservation. If you've got an iPhone, you can download Siri's "virtual personal assistant" app free of charge. The only difference is that HAL will live in your iPhone. Apple "acquired" Cheyer when it bought the company he co-founded, Siri Inc.Īnd Cheyer is still building HAL. Contact us today we’d love to show you more.Guess what HAL's chief architect does now? Cheyer works at Apple as director of engineering for the iPhone. We’ve only scratched the surface here of what you can do with your voice to simplify your life. So now asking Siri “Did I leave the front door unlocked?” can result in it locking it through your smart lock. But just this month, the company announced that they are working with major vendors like Savant and Crestron to control the new 4K Apple TV with your voice, through those companies’ remotes.Īlso, Apple and Crestron have announced that Siri on an iPhone or iPad will be able to control lights, motorized shades, entertainment systems, and more. Apple has been a little slower to bring Siri into home automation. After all, she (he?) was the first voice assistant. Perhaps you like Siri more than Alexa or Google. That means that a command like “OK Google, I’m home” can have a Lutron lighting control scene turn on the lights to your preferences when you get back from work. Lutron’s Connect app can integrate with Google Assistant. Not as much of a fan of Amazon’s Alexa? Google’s Assistant is also increasing its presence in home automation. Or if you have a hot tub on your penthouse deck, it could shut that off too. If you like falling asleep to TV at night, you can say “Alexa, turn off the TV in 30 minutes” and everything will shut off, even if it’s your family room home theater. You may know that Alexa also makes a wonderful – if pricey – kitchen timer, but the timer is also handy for smarter chores. For example, saying “Alexa, we’re leaving” could activate your Crestron “away” mode, setting the security system, adjusting your climate control, lights and anything else to your preferences. When paired with Crestron’s Pyng hub, an assistant like Amazon’s Alexa can control practically anything your home can automate. Say you invest in a Crestron home automation system. SEE ALSO: The Ultimate Smart Home Holiday Shopping Guide Read on for some more ways to simplify your life with voice control. And unlike HAL 9000, voice assistants do your bidding without a mind of their own (for now at least). Voice recognition is accurate enough now that controlling your technology and information through just your voice is a reality. How about saying a command like “Goodnight” and having all your lights turn off, with perhaps just a few dimmed on for nighttime navigation? Or asking your entertainment system to start Netflix, and having everything turn on automatically and be ready to go for binge-watching your favorite show? While that one is interesting, perhaps more useful are the types of things we can do with voice commands for home automation. We can even ask Apple’s Siri such esoteric questions like “what flights are flying overhead right now?” You see people regularly talk into their smartphones on New York City streets, asking where their next meeting is or the location of the next Starbucks. Fast forward 50 years to 2018, and we have much of HAL’s intelligence in voice assistant services from Amazon, Apple, and Google. In 1968’s sci-fi classic “2001: A Space Odyssey,:” the HAL 9000 computer could talk and respond to humans. Voice Control of Your Life Is Now Mainstream
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