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Call it a refrigerator, fridge or ’frigerator and Geneva, the voice-recognition tool used with Haier Group’s GE Appliances, will understand. By next year, “ice box” will work, too, the company says.
Developing the voice technology to understand commands for some 2,500 tasks for more than 100 models of GE appliances involved digging deep into the widely varying words and phrases Americans use to describe their household chores, the company says. So far, developers have compiled more than 160 billion versions of these commands,…