Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant… We are surrounded by virtual assistants and we have only mentioned a few of the main ones. The efforts of companies to prioritize their own assistants make them integrate into the applications that they develop and make them increasingly heavy and slow in exchange for having a function that the vast majority of users do not find useful at all. A developer has found references to a "Hey Spotify" style virtual assistant in the source code and this is definitely very bad news, How would this system be received by the public?
At the risk that hundreds of people now appear who feel true devotion to Alexa and Siri, the reality is that in my case I only use it to interact with my digital home, that is, at home: Play music, turn lights on and off, television or air conditioning ... However, the discovery of Jane Manchun Wong, And is that Apparently the Spotify code includes a kind of "Hey Spotify" that will help us navigate through the application, yes, exclusively when it is running, something that in itself is going to weigh down its execution in iOS without a doubt.
I do not question the facilities and the optimization that this may entail at the accessibility level, where any improvement is little, we will simply hope that Spotify will allow us to deactivate this option if it finally decides to integrate it. In addition, we must not forget that Spotify is fully compatible with Siri, it is properly integrated and Siri works even with the phone turned off ... what's the point of a "Hey Spotify" with the application running? We want to assume that this functionality will be more focused on the application for infotainment equipment included in cars, where we can execute actions without taking our eyes off the road.
