Amazon continues its mobile journey – as TechCrunch reported, the company has added voice integration to Alexa for the Android app. The initial rollout will be available via Google Play and the Amazon Appstore. Until now, the app has primarily served as a tool for...
If voice commerce is the future, then multi-modal commerce may be the future’s future. Voice, as Kris Zanuldin, head of Connected Commerce at Amazon, previously told PYMNTS, is convenient, but it gains much more power when combined with other forms of interaction. Don’t believe it?...
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved and matured, and so has the voice-activated landscape. Three years ago, developers had to think of skills in terms of a cylindrical speaker...
Amazon, undeniably, has the early lead in the race for smart speaker dominance. Its Echo line of products powered by Alexa — the voice-activated, artificially intelligent brains behind the operation — has 25,000 skills, 25,000 developers and commands roughly 70 percent of the home smart speaker market today. Experts estimate...
Voice commerce isn’t just about buying things. It’s also about returning things, exchanging things, tracking orders, reordering and improving the customer experience by answering questions whenever, wherever and however they’re asked. At least, Linc Global VP Luke Starbuck says it could one day be about...
In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart speaker products — the idea of regularly interacting with a voice-controlled virtual assistant has gone from being the stuff of science fiction and...
Dan, like many millions of Americans this time of the year, is traveling for the holidays. Three weeks ago, he logged onto his favorite airline bookings site and snagged a [pricey] round-trip plane ticket from San Francisco to Saginaw, Michigan to see his family. If...
Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style bourbon whiskey. And it’s not just smart in the sense that it can talk — it’s smart enough to sass you, too. Ask “Jim”...
Between smart speakers, smartphones and smart cars, speech has become an accepted and natural way to interact with electronics, both at home and on the go. Whether consumers are simply looking for information (like the current weather, driving directions or how many cups to a...
