How Do Voice Assistants Work?

In this episode, Frank and Andy explore voice assistants and the behind the scenes technology that makes them tick.AI Generated Transcript00:00:02 British Voiceover AI Lady Hello and welcome to data driven, the podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence and will not be the only AI generated voice today. As Frank and Andy interview, my Cousins Alexa, Cortana, Siri and the Google assistant. 00:00:18 British Voiceover AI Lady Now that I think of it, the Google assistant needs a proper name. 00:00:22 British Voiceover AI Lady Doesn't it? 00:00:23 British Voiceover AI Lady Without further ado, here are your hosts Frank Lavigna and Andy Leonard. 00:00:29 Frank So we're both together and we're going to be talking about voice assistants and kind of how they work and. 00:00:38 Frank Uh, we have some special guests with us today. 00:00:42 Frank Welcome once again, if you're just joining us live. It's Andy later tonight we are here and we are live streaming, data driven podcast where we explore the emerging fields of data science, machine learning an artificial intelligence. 00:00:55 Frank How are you doing Andy? 00:00:56 Andy I'm doing pretty good Frank. How are you? 00:00:59 Frank I'm doing well. I know you have a hard stop so I won't Yammer too long we have. 00:01:04 Frank Three special guests with us today. 00:01:06 Frank And E 3 three. 00:01:09 Frank That's a record. It is a record. 00:01:14 Frank These guests are. 00:01:19 Andy Alexa Hello Alexa. 00:01:22 Frank She's going to say hello back, I'm sure. 00:01:26 Andy Yeah. 00:01:28 Frank Cortana. 00:01:30 Andy Hello Cortana. 00:01:33 Frank And. 00:01:36 Frank On my phone, I have Google Assistant. 00:01:38 Andy Hello Google Assistant Hey Google. 00:01:41 Frank That didn't work. It now correctly phones on. Let me tell you whenever there's a training video or like a keynote where they talk about the integration between them. It's pandemonium in my Home Office, because I usually have all three and it's just harder pandemonium. 00:01:59 Frank So I want to switch to, so we're recording this last. If you're watching live. Thank you. If you're watching later, thank you. We always try to respond to the comments. I think we're pretty good about that. And if you're watching this, if you're listening to this on the podcast, I will try to transcribe everything I'm saying. So let me switch. 00:02:18 Frank Here. 00:02:19 Frank An I'll see if I can put us in the little bottom here, how do? 00:02:22 Frank I do that. 00:02:24 Frank There we go. 00:02:27 Frank Oh well anyway. 00:02:30 Andy So there we. 00:02:31 Andy Are were there this is a closed. 00:02:34 Frank Almost there, this is the. This is a quote. 00:02:38 Frank From Charles the 5th, who if you're not up in your history he was kind of a big deal. I think he was a hapsburg. I don't remember shame on me but he has this quote where he says I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men in German to my horse. 00:02:57 Frank Now you're probably wondering what the heck does this have to do with anything? Well, here's what it has to do with. 00:03:03 Frank Oh no, PowerPoint is going to crash. 00:03:07 Frank No, you can tell. 00:03:08 Frank We're live here we go. This is what I want to say. 00:03:11 Frank This is the my my modern take on this. I speak to Elexa when I'm home to Cortana. When I'm at work and Google Assistant when I'm in my car or have my phone with me. 00:03:24 Frank You can also replace...