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Amazon’s Alexa To Dominate Voice-Activated Personal Assistant Market
Amazon’s Alexa To Dominate Voice-Activated Personal Assistant Market
May 09, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon and its voice-activated assistant, Alexa, is dominating the burgeoning digital personal assistant market, with research firm eMarketer predicting it will command 70.6 percent of...

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Microsoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
Microsoft And Harman Team Up For Speaker Powered By Cortana
May 09, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Microsoft is getting into the voice-activated personal assistant market, teaming up with Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, to roll out a...

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Amazon Sets Lex (The Tech Behind Alexa) Loose
Amazon Sets Lex (The Tech Behind Alexa) Loose
April 20, 2017  |  Amazon

Alexa’s been in the spotlight for awhile now as Amazon’s darling voice-activated AI assistant. But the deep learning technologies behind the voice of Echo, Echo...

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Amazon Opens Alexa Up To Other Hardware Developers
Amazon Opens Alexa Up To Other Hardware Developers
April 14, 2017  |  Mobile Commerce

Amazon’s suite of Echo products could end up at other hardware companies, with the eCommerce giant announcing it’s making its technology available to those that want...

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Google Home To Support Multiple Users, Ushers In Increased Functionality
Google Home To Support Multiple Users, Ushers In Increased Functionality
April 11, 2017  |  Mobile Commerce

Google Home is reportedly gearing up to support multiple users. According to a report, while multiple users aren’t supported on Google Home as of now,...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Inner Strengths
Voice-Activated Tracker: Inner Strengths
April 07, 2017  |  Voice Activation

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 their strengths to...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Playing Catch-Up
Voice-Activated Tracker: Playing Catch-Up
March 31, 2017  |  Retail

The battle of the voice-activated giants will soon expand to the international stage. Google just recently announced that its smart speaker hardware Google Home will...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Fresh Voices
Voice-Activated Tracker: Fresh Voices
March 24, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Given the sheer volume of news, updates, skills and integrations, it may have been more fitting at times to title a few past editions Alexa...

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Alexa Now Orders Starbucks From Ford Sync 3
Alexa Now Orders Starbucks From Ford Sync 3
March 23, 2017  |  Innovation

It’s the moment all early-morning commuters have been waiting for. Starbucks just recently announced an ordering integration with Ford’s SYNC3, the automaker’s voice-activated technology powered...

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