Embedded voice, vision and biometrics artificial intelligence (AI) company Sensory has announced that its wake word engine, TrulyHandsfree, has new capabilities that...
7-Eleven has launched voice ordering with 7Voice, which allows customers to place orders through Google Home and Amazon Echo systems, the company...
As smart speakers surge in popularity, Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google Home by a wide margin, SlashGear reported on...
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent the last two years avidly racing for control...
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
“There’s no place like home” are the famous words spoken by Judy Garland, playing the character of Dorothy, at the end of...
When it comes to the household, Amazon’s Alexa rules the roost as America’s favored artificial intelligence (AI)- based voice assistant. It controls...
Samsung is introducing a marketplace for Bixby, the company’s voice assistant, despite its relatively unknown name when stacked against the likes of Alexa,...
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh has reportedly indicated that the device would be...
Here’s one way to imagine the dramatic developments in the growing connected-vehicle ecosystem, and how much is likely to change in a...
With the Super Bowl on the horizon, voice assistants are offering their own predictions as to who will win football’s big game....
The floor of CES was once again flooded with smart devices, created to make everything from personal grooming to household management to...
WEX, the global provider of corporate payments solutions, announced Thursday (Jan. 10) a partnership with AI.io, the voice technology company, to launch...
Tencent, the China Internet company, is gearing up to roll out a voice-activated digital assistant for WeChat, its messaging app. Bloomberg, citing comments...
A new report claims that Samsung is set to release another smart speaker next year, in addition to the Galaxy Home. According...
Samsung Electronics is all in on Bixby, its voice-activated digital assistant, with the Financial Times reporting it plans to install Bixby on...
Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant,...
Following on the heels of several months of delays, Johnson Controls rolled out its GLAS smart thermostat for pre-orders last week. According...
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just in time for the holiday selling season. The...
Sonos, the newly-public smart speaker company, which debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday (August 3), is gearing up to roll out integration with...
The smart speaker installed base is expected to near the 100 million mark by the end of 2018, representing close to 2.5...
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...
Amazon, Google and Apple are all gunning to become the biggest name in the global smart speaker market, but Russia is one...
Many have worried that Amazon’s Alexa is spying on them through their Echo device. Others, like this Oregon family, merely joked about...
The ideal goes something like this: Consumers at any location — a friend’s house, a car — could speak into a voice...
Sometime around the year 2000, small business (SMB) owners woke up one day and realized they needed a website. The case for...
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...
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...
Hello there. Hey. Hi. How ya doin’? If you’re a human, these greetings likely mean the same thing to you — but...
If a customer wants some red Nike running shoes in size 11, he can use his web browser or phone to navigate...
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...
Google Home is making some inroads against Amazon’s Echo devices, powered by its voice-activated personal assistant, Alexa. According to Search Engine Land,...
Amazon continues its mobile journey – as TechCrunch reported, the company has added voice integration to Alexa for the Android app. The...
If voice commerce is the future, then multi-modal commerce may be the future’s future. Voice, as Kris Zanuldin, head of Connected Commerce...
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved...
Amazon, undeniably, has the early lead in the race for smart speaker dominance. Its Echo line of products powered by Alexa — the...
Voice commerce isn’t just about buying things. It’s also about returning things, exchanging things, tracking orders, reordering and improving the customer experience...
In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart...
Dan, like many millions of Americans this time of the year, is traveling for the holidays. Three weeks ago, he logged onto...
Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style...
Between smart speakers, smartphones and smart cars, speech has become an accepted and natural way to interact with electronics, both at home...
Millions of American consumers have welcomed Amazon’s Alexa and other voice assistants into their homes. These assistants help with basic tasks and...
Voice shopping is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s one that nearly 20 percent of consumers have used and another 33...
OK, Google. Listen up, Alexa. Playtime’s over. It’s time to step outside the smart home and begin to build the smart office....
Scientists have discovered that Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and other voice assistant programs can be controlled using inaudible ultrasound commands. The Verge reported...
Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions,...
Paging Dr. Alexa: How are you feeling? It may not be long before virtual, voice-controlled assistants can tell and answer accordingly. Mattersight...
It’s been a little over a year since our Digital Banking Tracker heralded the “Dawn of Banking Voice Technology.” Now it’s more...
The evolution of the retail industry is well underway, and it’s becoming more evident (perhaps as a response to eCommerce giants like...
Bixby, according to the team at Samsung, is debugged and ready for mass introduction in the U.S. Bixby has apparently learned to...