--- title: Voice assistants and recommendations — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Voice assistants and recommendations», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A voice assistant does two guesses in a row: first it turns the sounds it hears into words, then it guesses what you wanted those words to --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / Voice assistants and recommendations # Voice assistants and recommendations Lesson 17 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/0/) — A voice assistant does two guesses in a row: first it turns the sounds it hears into words, then it guesses what you wanted those words to mean. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/1/) — When Grandma asks for "Dancing Queen" and gets a podcast about queens, one of those guesses slipped, just as a friend on a crackly phone line might mishear you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/2/) — Video sites and games guess too: they watch what you click and how long you stay, then show more of the same, so one cat video can turn your whole page into cats. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/3/) — The same pattern-spotting helps unlock phones with faces, warn drivers who drift, help doctors read X-rays and help scientists work out the shapes of proteins. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/4/) — In every case it is a strong guess, not a certainty, so people still check, decide and stay in charge. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/5/) — Voice assistants turn sounds into words and then guess what you meant; accents and background noise can confuse them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/6/) — For simple jobs with live data, such as timers and weather, voice assistants are usually useful. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/7/) — Recommendation systems learn from what you click and watch, and show you more of it; searching for new things on purpose widens what you see. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/8/) — Recommendations may push videos that keep people watching, including angry or scary ones. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/9/) — Some games use data about players to keep them playing longer, for example with well-timed rewards; deciding your stopping time before you start helps you stay in charge. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/10/) — Face recognition looks for patterns in faces, so very similar faces, such as identical twins, can sometimes fool it; adding a PIN makes a phone safer. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/11/) — Some cities test cars that drive themselves using cameras, sensors and AI; accidents have been reported and people argue about how safe they are. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/12/) — Many cars have helper systems, such as a beep when the car drifts out of its lane, but the driver is always responsible. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/13/) — AI can help doctors spot patterns in scans such as X-rays; doctors still check and decide. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/14/) — It was widely reported that scientists used AI to predict the shapes of proteins (tiny building parts inside every living thing), a breakthrough that helps research into medicines. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/15/) — Map apps guess traffic from data sent by many phones and can suggest a faster route. - ← previous: [Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/) - next →: [Cars, doctors, scientists and translators](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)