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Voice Activation
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2.4KAmazon Debuts Alexa For Property Managers
Amazon has introduced a service that vows to make it easy for property managers to install and manage Alexa-powered smart devices in...
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1.7KFacebook, Amazon And Google Smart Displays Will Soon Have Zoom
Zoom Video Communications is expanding its massively popular video chat platform to smart devices as the pandemic continues to keep much of...
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3.4K5 Ways Voice Technology Is Increasingly Making Itself Heard
Voice technology is among the things that have gotten a big boost from the global pandemic as consumers shift to buying things...
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5.0KIs Voice The Ultimate Touchless Payments Experience?
Voice technology was already on the rise long before the global pandemic broke out, with a steadily increasing share of consumers using...
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4.8KWhy 7-Eleven Is Betting On Voice Commerce To Keep Customers Loyal
7-Eleven rocked the world of customer loyalty this week, which should be no surprise to anyone who has seen Tarang Sethia in...
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3.3KPandemic Drives Consumer, Business Interest In Voice-Assisted Commerce
Vast numbers of consumers are happy to ask Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to play a song, find a recipe or dim...
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4.5KSensory CEO: Voice Technology Is About To Make Itself Heard
To say that voice technology is having its moment in the global pandemic’s aftermath isn’t quite accurate. The sector has actually been...
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3.0KFlipkart Rolls Out Multilingual AI Voice Tool
Flipkart, Walmart’s supermart online grocery store in India, has introduced a voice assistant that allows users to buy products in multiple languages,...
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5.0KPandemic Gives A Lift To Voice Assistant Technologies
Voice assistant technology already had an audience even before the coronavirus outbreak gave it a big boost, as it has now radically...
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3.3KThe Voice Assistant Wars Shift To Gaming
From a playing field that was nearly empty five years, the world of voice-activated personal assistants has filled up and rounded out...
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6.4KFiserv: 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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7.7KAlexa 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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4.2KSensory 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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3.0KSensory’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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3.7K7-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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7.2KAmazon 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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3.5KGoogle’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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8.9KWhy 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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13.6KApple – 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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6.0KHow 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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3.5KSamsung 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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3.8KSamsung 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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7.9KWhy 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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5.3KWho 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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6.1KThe 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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5.2KWEX 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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12.2KTencent 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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2.2KSamsung 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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5.3KSamsung 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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2.7KBixby 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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2.7KJohnson 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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3.6KGoogle 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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2.6KSonos 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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3.7KSmart 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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7.6KReport: 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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4.0KYandex 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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5.1KAlexa 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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5.7KSensory 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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4.8KThe 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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5.2KSilent 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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5.3KVoice 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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5.1KSemafone’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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4.8KVoice: 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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6.0KMercedes 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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6.8KGoogle 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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6.7KSay 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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5.1KVoice 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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3.8KEverybody 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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5.5KGrooming 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...
