Thanks to HP you can now start talking to your printer as well

By David Nield

It had to happen sooner or later: digital assistants are coming to control your home printer, courtesy of HP. The feature isn’t built into the printers yet though – the functionality comes as a new skill to use with your smart speaker or assistant app, and will work with all HP’s web-enabled printers.

“Integrating voice into the home printer is an undeniably useful application of the technology,” according to HP’s Anneliese Olson. “For busy families, the virtual assistant ecosystem makes a lot of sense and connecting a printer to it is a natural extension within the smart home.”

You’ll be able to bark out commands like “print some graph paper” or “print out my reminders” says HP, without so much as a click on a mouse button or a tap on a screen. HP plans to actually embed the assistants into its printers in the near future, though for the time being you’ll have to use an intermediary device.

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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components