“Alexa, what time is it…?”
For some of you, I’ll bet that is an all too common a phrase in your household – I suspect it’s a case of not if, but how many!
Over the last few years, the growth of smart assistants (or SAs) such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant has exploded; gone are the days when we had to trawl web sites or search through newspapers or books to get that scrap of information. Indeed, one of the co-founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates, once said that he believed voice and speech output will become a standard part of the [web] interface – with the advent of Siri, Alexa, and Google ...
