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Voice Activation
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1.5KHow 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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1.5KThe 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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2.0KSmarter 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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2.8KVoice 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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3.9KMaking 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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4.6KArtificial 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...
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6.1KThe Past, Present And Future Of Voice Banking
It’s been a little over a year since our Digital Banking Tracker heralded the “Dawn of Banking Voice Technology.” Now it’s more...
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3.5KVoice Activated Tracker: Retailers Seek AI Boost
The evolution of the retail industry is well underway, and it’s becoming more evident (perhaps as a response to eCommerce giants like...
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2.9KBixby Has Learned To Speak English Well Enough For Mass Release
Bixby, according to the team at Samsung, is debugged and ready for mass introduction in the U.S. Bixby has apparently learned to...
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3.7KAlexa Logs 15,000 Skills, Jumping from February’s 10,000 Tally
The voice-powered applications offered through Alexa now number more than 15,000 skills, reports TechCrunch, up from 10,000 in February. That latter number,...
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2.1KAlibaba Gears Up To Launch Its Own Voice-Activated Device
Alibaba, China’s eCommerce company, is reportedly gearing up to create a voice-controlled speaker similar to the virtual assistant Amazon Echo that understands the...
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2.1KVoice Activated Tracker: Google Voice Is Coming To iPhones
If you tell Siri, “You’re fired,” she’ll come back with a quavering protest: “But, but…” That feeble protest may be the best...
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Voice-Activated Tracker: Echo Show, The Speaker Who Would Be King
It’s official. Amazon put an end to speculation last week as it announced its next-gen smart speaker — screen and all — called the...
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2.6KMicrosoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
Microsoft is getting into the voice-activated personal assistant market, teaming up with Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to...
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1.7KVoice-Activated Tracker: Here Come The Screens?
Good news for those disappointed to see that Samsung’s Bixby didn’t debut last month alongside the Galaxy S8. The wait may soon...
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3.0KVoice-Activated Tracker: Just Say No (To Ads?)
Two voice-activated giants have made themselves clear: No ads until we say so. The first was a major media story. Google had...
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2.0KVoice-Activated Tracker: Location, Location, Location
We had a bit of fun last week writing that Alexa was taking time out to work on itself — but the...
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2.5KVoice-Activated Tracker: Inner Strengths
Amazon’s Alexa sits comfortably in the top voice-enabled software spot, taking some time to pay attention to the small things. Elsewhere, challengers leverage...
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2.1KVoice-Activated Tracker: Fresh Voices
Given the sheer volume of news, updates, skills and integrations, it may have been more fitting at times to title a few...
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2.0KVoice-Activated Tracker: The Last Landline
This edition of Voice-Activated Tracker starts off with the news that we’ve been waiting for. Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web...
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2.5KVoice-Activated Tracker: Milestones
We’ll say it again: They grow up so fast. The past few weeks have seen some major milestones surpassed in the voice-enabled...
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4.1KVoice-Activated Tracker: Let’s Talk About Banks
This week’s voice-activated tracker is all about the banks, baby. In recent weeks, a number of financial institutions and FinTech providers have...
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3.0KVoice Activated Tracker: Call Me On Alexa
First up in this week’s Voice Activated Tracker, Santander Bank upgraded the voice functionality of its SmartBank mobile application, starting with the...
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1.6KVoice Activated Tracker: State Of The Industry
Language is in many ways what makes us human. Other species seem to get by alright without it, but for us, language...
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2.9KVoice-Activated Tracker: Dr. Siri, M.D.
It turns out the human voice isn’t just for ordering replacement detergent from your Amazon Echo or sending a text message hands-free...
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2.2KVoice Activated Tracker: Alexa Goes Hollywood
They grow up so fast. Amazon’s Alexa has come a long way in the just over two years since its initial release....
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13.0KThe Clash Of The Voice-Commerce Titans
Google, Apple and Amazon have all put some pretty big bets behind a commerce-enabled future that is activated by voice. Each brings...
