Sensory Removes Barriers to Entry for Endpoint Voice Control (Arm Blueprint)

“Defrost one pound of frozen chicken.” I have no clue what magical button sequence on my microwave will get me there, but it sure is easy to just say it. “Start a load of whites at 10pm tonight.” I’m not even going to try to dial that in to my washing machine—if I did, I’d undoubtedly end up with a pile of shrunken, off-color laundry.

Today, voice control around the home is mostly limited to the smart speaker and the smartphone. Yet just look around your home and I am sure you will find at least two or three appliances that have a user interface that is a confusing mashup of buttons, lights, switches, text and beeps.