Reports earlier this week that Roku had apparently canceled its planned voice assistants may have called the code prematurely.
The Roku voice assistant was originally announced way back in January 2018, but in the time since then, Roku hasn’t said very much about it.
As it turns out, Roku hasn’t canned its voice assistant as originally reported, but when it does finally arrive, it might not be exactly what you’re expecting.
The news that Roku had cancelled its voice assistant came in a profile about the company from The Wall Street Journal.
Since then, Roku has reached out to confirm that its efforts in voice were, in fact, still ongoing.
“We are continuing to build more voice capabilities into our platform,” Roku vice president of communications Tricia Mifsud told SlashGear, noting that those voice capabilities are called “Roku Voice.”
It certainly feels like voice assistants are everywhere these days, with Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all offering their own.
At one point, even Roku said it was working on its own voice assistant, but that announcement came way back in January 2018.
If you’ve been wondering what’s up with Roku’s voice assistant, you definitely aren’t alone, but today we’re receiving some disappointing news on that front.
Roku has confirmed that it has canceled its planned voice assistant.
The news comes in a hefty profile on the company from The Wall Street Journal.
We don’t really learn why the voice assistant has been cancelled, with a spokesperson from the company simply confirming to WSJ that it’s no longer in the works.
If you own Amazon Echo and Roku, pull up your socks as you can now start talking with your TV.
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Last year, Roku’s TV & streaming devices also worked with Google Home speakers.
The combination of Google Home & Roku devices was working in the same manner just like Alexa skill.
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Despite the fact that voice technology has been accessible and usable for several years now within our smartphone devices, consumers never really caught on to how useful these digital assistants could be until Amazon introduced Alexa through their Echo lineup.
According to Deloitte Global, the smart speaker industry and use of digital assistants will be worth close to seven billion US dollars and will have approximately 164 million units sold this year.
Even though smart speaker sales have been largely confined to English-speaking markets, with about 95% of the sales being in the United States and the United Kingdom alone, digital voice assistants are primed to enter other non-English markets this year.
According to Deloitte Global, sales should take off in countries that speak Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin), as smart speakers are starting to penetrate urban consumer markets in Germany, Urban China, Australia, and the United Kingdom alongside continuous sales in Canada and the United States.
This is mainly because smart speaker technology is finally becoming more sophisticated with regards to speech recognition and build quality and the market is seeing more demands for their use in commercial enterprises like hotel chains and fast-food restaurants.
Digital voice assistants have come a long way in speech recognition accuracy and as such, we are seeing machine learning narrow down the accent gap, no longer getting befuddled when presented with a strong national accent and Google’s word error rate for English speech recognition is down almost 50% since 2016.
