Meta and Google bet on AI voice assistants. Will they take off?
A pair of Meta's glasses takes a photo when you say, "Hey, Meta, take a photo." A miniature computer that clips onto your shirt, the Ai Pin, translates foreign languages into your native tongue. An artificially intelligent screen features a virtual assistant that you speak to via a microphone.Last year, OpenAI updated its ChatGPT chatbot to respond with spoken words, and recently, Google introduced Gemini, a replacement for its voice assistant on Android phones.Tech companies are betting on a renaissance of voice assistants, many years after most people decided that talking to computers wasn't cool.Will it work this time? Maybe, but it might take a while.Large swaths of people still have never used voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google's As...