Hacker News with Generative AI: Voice Assistants

'Hey Siri, What Month Is It?' (daringfireball.net)
Whole Reddit thread examining this simple question: “What month is it?” and Siri’s “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” response (which I just reproduced on my iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 18.4b4). One guy changed the question to “What month is it currently?” and got the answer “It is 2025.”

Siri, Apple, iOS, Voice Assistants, Artificial Intelligence

8 points by m463 13 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus (theverge.com)
Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa — Alexa Plus — that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly.

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Home, Voice Assistants

4 points by meetpateltech 36 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: I built a voice AI investor clone for fun startup pitches (vercel.app)
Parth.ai🏆 Leaderboard FAQ will my ai intern invest in your startup? Start a call On start, you'll be asked questions via mic/speakers. No-BS feedback given after the call. Real pitch of Juicero 2.0

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Voice Assistants, Business

12 points by probe 37 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Fixa – an open source Python package for testing voice agents (github.com/fixadev)
fixa is a python package for testing and evaluating AI voice agents.

Open Source, Python, Voice Assistants, AI, Testing

15 points by jony1266 72 days ago | 4 comments

Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M (arstechnica.com)
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads.

Privacy, Apple, Lawsuits, Voice Assistants

78 points by _tk_ 91 days ago | 26 comments

Apple will pay $95M to people who were spied on by Siri (theverge.com)
Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Siri, Voice Assistants

20 points by tanduv 91 days ago | 0 comments

Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor (mastodon.social)

Siri, Voice Assistants, Entertainment, Pop Culture

19 points by latexr 96 days ago | 3 comments

The era of open voice assistants (home-assistant.io)
We all deserve a voice assistant that doesn’t harvest our data and arbitrarily limit features. In the same way Home Assistant made private and local home automation a viable option, we believe the same can, and must be done for voice assistants.

Privacy, Open Source, Voice Assistants

931 points by _Microft 105 days ago | 278 comments

The Alexa Skills revolution that wasn't (theverge.com)
The first Amazon Echo, all the way back in 2014, was pitched as a device for a few simple things: playing music, asking basic questions, getting the weather.

Amazon Alexa, Voice Assistants, Consumer Technology

6 points by marban 152 days ago | 2 comments

Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents (ycombinator.com)

Software, Testing, Voice Assistants, YC

129 points by sumanyusharma 231 days ago | 66 comments

New Google Pixel 9 voice assistant Gemini is a trainwreck (fastcompany.com)

Voice Assistants, AI, Reviews

14 points by jnord 232 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: ShortLoop – Replay Audio Calls and Test Your VoiceAI (shortloop.dev)

Voice Assistants, Audio, AI, Software

14 points by deepakthakur 245 days ago | 6 comments

Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri (ycombinator.com)