Smart speakers and voice assistants are ubiquitous these days. Many people use various smart speakers from Amazon, Google, and Apple for information, music, quick questions, and home automation. With tempting Black Friday sales and prices at this time of year, it's tempting to get one or more for your home.

While these smart speakers and their intelligence platforms are great, they are also sometimes frustrating – especially when it comes to home automation. Commands to turn on a light sometimes have to be repeated. They have a limited understanding of context. Ask your child to flip on a light, and they look for the nearest switch and turn it on. Ask a voice assistant, and it can sometimes be an exercise equivalent to telling your child, "it's the switch to your right, the one on the wall, white, 2 inches above your eye level.” If that’s a frustration you’ve experienced, you might be glad to hear there is another option.

Elite Technology Solutions has recently partnered with Josh.AI, a voice assistant that is exclusively designed for home automation and aims to be the personal assistant that always understands what you want. Elite is proud to be the only home automation company offering the Josh.AI solution to the Ladue, MO community. Read on to learn more about a new dimension in voice control for your home.

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Speak English

When you want something done, you don't want to think like a robot and articulate your desire in some unnatural way. That's what Josh.AI is all about. It's designed explicitly for professionally installed and configured home automation systems, the ones that aren't a novelty and are used as mission-critical tools for managing your home. Josh.AI employs proprietary natural language processing so you can speak to it the way you tell your child to turn the light on.

Josh is not only smart out of the box; it gets smarter over time as it learns from you – just like your child. Get conversational in a way where Alexa struggles, telling Josh to “dim the lights and let’s watch The Queen’s Gambit,” and Josh knows which lights to dim and that the show is on Netflix, and he brings your AV system to life and starts playing the show.

With this kind of intelligence, you'll want a Josh.AI in every room. The new Micro speaker is the perfect fit for that use. The speaker understands what room it’s in, so when you ask to turn on the light, TV, or something else, it knows which one you mean.

Seamless Control

Josh.AI works with a broad array of smart devices, including popular consumer ones like Nest Thermostats. But more importantly, it integrates seamlessly with professional smart home control systems like Crestron to make their powerful, sophisticated automation easily accessible to the sound of your voice.   What's more, as an artificial intelligence system designed for home automation, it learns from your habits. If you always turn on a set of lights at a particular time of day, it will start doing it for you. And if you turn on the lights and a specific type of music on your whole home audio system, it will do both of those without your input!

Beyond voice control, Josh.AI gives you beautifully designed IOS and Android apps so you can fully customize your interactions and make Josh.AI even smarter. It also lets you use voice control from your smartphone to activate things at home, like turning on security and surveillance systems and lights. Josh.AI also makes it easy to control multiple properties if you have more than one home.   

Superior Privacy

A big concern with much of today’s personal and home technology is privacy. Most voice assistants do their processing in the cloud, and some are constantly listening for earning purposes. Many of those assistants use that information for marketing purposes. If you are highly concerned about privacy, you’ll be happy to know that Josh.AI does its voice processing locally, not sending data to a cloud or using your interactions for any other purpose than home control. What you do at home stays at your home. 

Ready for a home automation voice assistant that gets you? Call us today at (636) 939-4474 or reach out on our contact page. We look forward to working with you!