“Forming a relationship with people on their speakers in the kitchen may make it easier to form a relationship with them on their headphones and in their cars.”
People are still much more likely to use smart speakers for music and weather than news. But that could change as news organizations design news briefings specifically for the speakers.
That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.
“The New York Times is not going to build a self-driving car, but if we see that technology as being inevitable, we should have a strategy for how The New York Times will fit into it.”
The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots for messaging platforms like Slack and voice interfaces like Amazon Echo or Google Home.
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Wang, Shan. "Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Nov. 2016. Web. 5 Oct. 2024.
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Wang, S. (2016, Nov. 29). Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 5, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/quartz-launches-its-bot-studio-with-a-quarter-million-from-knight-and-plans-for-slack-and-amazon-echo/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 29, 2016. Accessed October 5, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/quartz-launches-its-bot-studio-with-a-quarter-million-from-knight-and-plans-for-slack-and-amazon-echo/.
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