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4.8KFiserv: Why Gas Is Just The Start Of What Alexa Will Pay For
While there were many attention-grabbing announcements coming out of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), among the more eye-opening was the joint...
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5.7KAlexa Payments Coming For ExxonMobil Customers
ExxonMobil and Fiserv have teamed up to let people pay for gas with Alexa at the pump, according to a release. People...
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3.5KSensory Teams With Appliance OEMS For Smart Voice Platform
With a specialized model of its TrulyNatural vocabulary speech-recognition and natural-language-understanding platform, Silicon Valley firm Sensory unveiled the release of its domain-specific...
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2.0KSensory’s Voice Tech Platform Expands ‘Wake’ Word Options
Embedded voice, vision and biometrics artificial intelligence (AI) company Sensory has announced that its wake word engine, TrulyHandsfree, has new capabilities that...
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2.7K7-Eleven Supports Voice Orders Via Alexa, Google Home
7-Eleven has launched voice ordering with 7Voice, which allows customers to place orders through Google Home and Amazon Echo systems, the company...
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3.5KAmazon Echo Smart Speakers Outselling Google Home
As smart speakers surge in popularity, Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google Home by a wide margin, SlashGear reported on...
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2.9KGoogle’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent the last two years avidly racing for control...
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7.0KWhy Voice Is Connected Commerce’s Killer App
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
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10.7KApple – Phone Home
“There’s no place like home” are the famous words spoken by Judy Garland, playing the character of Dorothy, at the end of...
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4.5KHow Amazon Hopes To Make Alexa King Of The Road
When it comes to the household, Amazon’s Alexa rules the roost as America’s favored artificial intelligence (AI)- based voice assistant. It controls...
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2.8KSamsung Introduces Bixby Marketplace
Samsung is introducing a marketplace for Bixby, the company’s voice assistant, despite its relatively unknown name when stacked against the likes of Alexa,...
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3.3KSamsung Teases April Debut Of Galaxy Home Smart Speaker
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh has reportedly indicated that the device would be...
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7.5KWhy Voice Is Vital To Connected Commutes
Here’s one way to imagine the dramatic developments in the growing connected-vehicle ecosystem, and how much is likely to change in a...
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4.9KWho Will Win The Super Bowl? Ask Alexa
With the Super Bowl on the horizon, voice assistants are offering their own predictions as to who will win football’s big game....
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5.8KThe Big Voice Showdown In Vegas
The floor of CES was once again flooded with smart devices, created to make everything from personal grooming to household management to...
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4.8KWEX Launches Travel Chatbot
WEX, the global provider of corporate payments solutions, announced Thursday (Jan. 10) a partnership with AI.io, the voice technology company, to launch...
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8.9KTencent To Roll Out Voice-Activated Assistant For WeChat
Tencent, the China Internet company, is gearing up to roll out a voice-activated digital assistant for WeChat, its messaging app. Bloomberg, citing comments...
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2.0KSamsung Eyes Second Smart Speaker
A new report claims that Samsung is set to release another smart speaker next year, in addition to the Galaxy Home. According...
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5.0KSamsung Electronics To Integrate Bixby With All Its Electronics
Samsung Electronics is all in on Bixby, its voice-activated digital assistant, with the Financial Times reporting it plans to install Bixby on...
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2.5KBixby Eyes Third-Party Integration
Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant,...
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2.5KJohnson Controls Rolls Out Cortana-Embedded Smart Thermostat
Following on the heels of several months of delays, Johnson Controls rolled out its GLAS smart thermostat for pre-orders last week. According...
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3.3KGoogle To Intro Its Own Smart Speaker With Screen
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just in time for the holiday selling season. The...
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2.4KSonos CEO Says Google Assistant Integration Should Come Before Holidays
Sonos, the newly-public smart speaker company, which debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday (August 3), is gearing up to roll out integration with...
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3.2KSmart Speaker Installed Base Poised To Near 100M Mark This Year
The smart speaker installed base is expected to near the 100 million mark by the end of 2018, representing close to 2.5...
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7.0KReport: Alexa Is Everywhere, Google Assistant Smarter
Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant Alexa and Google’s Assistant are leading the voice digital speaker market, with competition between the two expected to...
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3.5KYandex Eats Up Russian Market Share With Plus Membership, Smart Speaker
Amazon, Google and Apple are all gunning to become the biggest name in the global smart speaker market, but Russia is one...
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4.7KAlexa Snafu Raises Concerns For Smart Speaker Skeptics
Many have worried that Amazon’s Alexa is spying on them through their Echo device. Others, like this Oregon family, merely joked about...
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5.3KSensory CEO On How Voice Recognition Is Growing Up
The ideal goes something like this: Consumers at any location — a friend’s house, a car — could speak into a voice...
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4.3KThe Chatbot Revolution: When, Not If
Sometime around the year 2000, small business (SMB) owners woke up one day and realized they needed a website. The case for...
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4.8KSilent Commands Compromise Security For Alexa, Siri
Researchers have discovered possible security implications for digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google’s Assistant. According to a report...
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5.0KVoice And Visual: Better Together On The Echo Show
There’s a lot that developers can do with voice, and that’s at the heart of the PYMNTS.com Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa...
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4.7KSemafone’s Dos And Don’ts Of The Voice Challenge With Amazon Alexa
Hello there. Hey. Hi. How ya doin’? If you’re a human, these greetings likely mean the same thing to you — but...
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4.4KVoice: A Growing Piece Of The Omnicommerce Pie
If a customer wants some red Nike running shoes in size 11, he can use his web browser or phone to navigate...
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5.6KMercedes Develops In-Car Alexa Competitor
Amazon isn’t the only one with a voice-activated assistant. Daimler is rolling out its own with its new Mercedes A-Class, unveiled late...
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6.4KGoogle Home Said To Be Gaining Ground On Alexa
Google Home is making some inroads against Amazon’s Echo devices, powered by its voice-activated personal assistant, Alexa. According to Search Engine Land,...
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6.4KSay Hello To Alexa On Android
Amazon continues its mobile journey – as TechCrunch reported, the company has added voice integration to Alexa for the Android app. The...
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4.8KVoice And Visuals: A One-Two Punch For Voice Banking
If voice commerce is the future, then multi-modal commerce may be the future’s future. Voice, as Kris Zanuldin, head of Connected Commerce...
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Alexa And Voice Commerce: Thinking Outside The Cylinder
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved...
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3.5KEverybody Wants To Rule The (Smart Speaker) World
Amazon, undeniably, has the early lead in the race for smart speaker dominance. Its Echo line of products powered by Alexa — the...
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5.1KGrooming Alexa (And Users) For The Future Of Voice Commerce
Voice commerce isn’t just about buying things. It’s also about returning things, exchanging things, tracking orders, reordering and improving the customer experience...
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5.6KGetting Credit Unions Ready For The Voice-Activated Future
In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart...
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15.6KAlexa: From Voice To A Conversation About Commerce
Dan, like many millions of Americans this time of the year, is traveling for the holidays. Three weeks ago, he logged onto...
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3.9KNow Entering The Connected Device Arena: Jim Beam
Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style...
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8.4KTwo-Factor Voice Authentication: Now We’re Talking
Between smart speakers, smartphones and smart cars, speech has become an accepted and natural way to interact with electronics, both at home...
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8.0KHow Siri And Alexa Could Be The New Face — Or Voice — Of Hospitality
Millions of American consumers have welcomed Amazon’s Alexa and other voice assistants into their homes. These assistants help with basic tasks and...
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5.0KThe Future Is Still Unclear For Voice Shopping
Voice shopping is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s one that nearly 20 percent of consumers have used and another 33...
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4.1KSmarter Homes And Offices
OK, Google. Listen up, Alexa. Playtime’s over. It’s time to step outside the smart home and begin to build the smart office....
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4.9KVoice AI Devices Vulnerable To Ultrasound Hacks
Scientists have discovered that Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and other voice assistant programs can be controlled using inaudible ultrasound commands. The Verge reported...
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12.8KMaking Voice Assistants Allies In Health
Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions,...
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8.4KArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Empathy
Paging Dr. Alexa: How are you feeling? It may not be long before virtual, voice-controlled assistants can tell and answer accordingly. Mattersight...
