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Lazada launches K.PO, a Singlish spewing shopping assistant smart speaker!

By Vijay Anand - on 1 Apr 2017, 9:44am

Lazada launches K.PO, a Singlish spewing shopping assistant smart speaker!

It's no secret that intelligent assistants like Apple's Siri have a terrible time understanding Singaporeans and our local colloquialisms. And it's not much different on the Android platform either going by our epic voice assistant battle.

To bridge locals to our powerful smartphones, Lazada today launched an intelligent smart speaker, the K.PO! This intellectual shopping assistant (Knowledgeable Purchasing Officer) not only understands your needs comfortably, but it even knows how to respond like a local resident; even if it acts like a wise-ass at times while sharing the best online offers.

Tickled by what it can do? Head over to Lazada to reserve one for S$49.90!

Hope you enjoyed Lazada's April Fool's Day prank!

Let's hope AI assistants/devices get smarter in time to better understand our local languages and slang to better serve us. Or better yet, Lazada or another local company really does end up selling a device that's trained and adapts to local speech. The future is bright and it might just be around the corner ;)

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