Talking to Bots

Speech recognition and talking with machines is not a new area of research but there seems to be growth in an awkward way. Talking with machines is more than having a machine determining what is said like speech recognition. It is about understanding what is meant by the words we say and respond in a coherent way. I have to admit some of the replies we get from Alexa, Siri, or Cortana are downright funny. Why are so many responses incoherent? In part, I think voice