Second episode of Movistar Home, this time on the Movistar + Late Motiv set, with Buenafuente as host, and Rafael Nadal as surprise guest. The first chapter was a few months ago, at the Mobile World Congress at the end of February, where the Telefónica device, which dialogues with Movistar users through Aura, was presented in Society. To see him, touch him, taste him, talk with him and check his true qualities and his ‘intelligence’, there are still several weeks left. At the moment only 5,000 users, who asked to experiment with it before the official launch, will be the guinea pigs that will provide Telefónica with the necessary feedback to know if the chosen path is the correct one, or not.
We still do not know most of its technical characteristics, although we already know why it was said in the presentation that it will not be connected to the Internet. Yes to the latest generation Movistar Wi-Fi router so that the client of the Spanish company can manage all their communications and Movistar + functions through the new device, which, as indicated by Chema Alonso, Telefónica’s Chief Data Officer, has the objective of completing the ecosystem of products for the home of the Spanish operator and “bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the lounge of Movistar customers”.
Potential users who will be able to dialogue with Movistar Home, but only for the services they have contracted with Telefónica and to test other advertising functionalities with El Corte Inglés, Iberia and Twitter, will be the 12 million people who occupy the 4 million households that currently have Movistar TV contracted. ” With the new equipment, users will forget the remote control and the landline, since what they do now with these devices they will do with Movistar Home through their voice just by mentioning the words ‘OK Aura'”.
The surprise of the second chapter of the series starring Movistar Home and Aura were the words after its presentation, in which the operator’s spokesmen pointed out that Movistar Home does not have the objective of competing with Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, a quartet known as GAFA, and its smart devices for the home and with which it interacts through the voice to manage the agenda, the television itself -option that is feasible with Google Home connecting a Cromcast to the Smart TV-, listen to the news that the customer wants, make shopping lists, program alarms, …
In future chapters the creators of Aura and Movistar Home, they say, will teach their assistant or home device to recognize the voices of home users, or voice prints, and the device itself will learn from the dialogue with the members of the family who use it, in order to improve the initial delay of four to five seconds that exists when they are asked to perform a certain action. ” Movistar Home will only be activated when it is called upon with the magic words ‘OK Aura’, and in no way will it listen to what users are talking about in its environment, nor will it spy on them through the integrated camera.”
And also in its future development it is studying whether to open Movistar Home to developers and third parties, so that it has more functionalities, apart from the own it already has thanks to the relationship of Telefónica customers. Meanwhile, whoever wants to access the device, when it is marketed at Christmas, will have to pay 79 euros, and can also finance it, if they want, in 12 or 24 months.
