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5.1KVoice ActivationAlexa 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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3.0KVoice ActivationAmazon 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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6.7KVoice ActivationWhy 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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3.2KVoice ActivationSamsung 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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4.3KAmazonAmazon Dominates Smart Speaker Q4 Shipments
A new report shows that smart speaker sales are on the rise, with Amazon taking the top spot in shipments. Strategy Analytics...
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4.4KGoogleGoogle Assistant Skills Trail Alexa By 52K
When it comes to the competition for developer mindshare in voice apps, Amazon is well ahead of Google. Amazon recently announced that the...
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3.7KAlexaAlexa Can Now Read Emails, Prompt Location-Based Services
Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon is adding a bunch of new features to its voice-activated digital assistant Alexa, including...
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15.8KInnovationWho’s Going In The Connected Car Driver’s Seat?
Before there was Alexa, Bixby, Siri and Google Assistant, there was Emma Nutt. Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town...
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3.9KAlexaWill Prime Day Be A Big Power Boost For Alexa?
When a consumer talks to a voice assistant, odds are very good that Alexa‘s is the digital voice they will hear. According...
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3.9KAlexaFree Alexa: Disentangling Voice Commerce From The Power Cable
Alexa may be on the move. A California-based chipmaker, DSP Group, is working on a small, standardized chip that device manufacturers can...
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3.4KVoice ActivationYandex 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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4.7KVoice ActivationAlexa 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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2.8KGoogleGoogle Beats Amazon In Q1 Smart Speaker Shipments
Google might be feeling pretty smart today about its high-tech Home and Home Mini speakers. That’s because a new research report puts...
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4.2KVoice ActivationThe 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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4.8KVoice ActivationSilent 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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PSCU Builds Alexa Sidekick For Credit Union Members
Troy wakes up, checks his calendar while brushing his teeth and pays his bills as he gets dressed. He checks account balances,...
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3.6KToday In DataCapturing Consumers In A Rapidly Resetting Environment
The fact that the world is changing rapidly shouldn’t come as much of a shock — though the speed and centers of...
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4.7KVoice ActivationSemafone’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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4.4KVoice ActivationVoice: 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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5.5KVoice ActivationMercedes 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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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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3.4KVoice ActivationEverybody 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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9.7KNewsAll Sizzle, No Fizzle: Top Payments Topics Of 2017
Voice activation, artificial intelligence, alternative financing and IPOs: These were some of the year’s hottest topics in the payments industry – and...
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7.2KIntelligence of ThingsThe Year In Voice-Activated AI
“Alexa?” “Hey, Siri…” “Okay, Google…” “Hi, Bixby…” If we told the average person in early 2013 that someday it was going to...
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15.5KVoice ActivationAlexa: From Voice To A Conversation About Commerce
Dan, like many millions of Americans this time of the year, is traveling for the holidays. Three weeks ago, he logged onto...
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8.3KEcosystemsThe Road Race For Connected Car Commerce
The potential for commerce applications to be embedded in a car’s dashboard is great. Who hasn’t fantasized about owning a car that can be...
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3.9KVoice ActivationNow Entering The Connected Device Arena: Jim Beam
Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style...
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8.3KVoice ActivationTwo-Factor Voice Authentication: Now We’re Talking
Between smart speakers, smartphones and smart cars, speech has become an accepted and natural way to interact with electronics, both at home...
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7.9KVoice ActivationHow 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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4.4KMerchant InnovationSamsung’s Bixby Aimed At Making Inroads In The Virtual Assistant Market
To take on Siri and Alexa, Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, has announced its Bixby 2.0, a reinvention of...
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4.5KAmazonAmazon Expands Alexa’s Ability To Make Custom Lists
Amazon is expanding the number of Alexa custom lists users can create, a move to enhance one of its voice-activated digital assistant’s...
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5.0KVoice ActivationThe 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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3.1KAmazon TechnologyAmazon To Control 68 Percent Of Smart Speaker Market In 2017
Despite the efforts on the part of competitors to reign in Amazon’s leadership in the voice-activated smart speaker market, thanks to the...
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5.2KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGoogle Adds Target To Its Voice-Activated Ecosystem
Aiming to compete better with the likes of Amazon and Walmart, Target announced news on Thursday (Oct. 12) of a new partnership...
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6.7KAmazonAlexa Can Recognize Multiple Voices
Amazon’s Alexa now offers voice recognition that can tell the difference between family members’ voices. Users can set up voice recognition using...
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15.7KCommerceWho’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale...
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12.6KTech CenterBridging Speech and Loyalty with Voice Activated Rewards
The voice-activated assistant is gaining currency with consumers. Use of the devices is growing like gangbusters. Research from eMarketer shows that as many...
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4.7KNewsHow Retailers Can Manage The Coming Voice Disruption
Think back just five years ago. In 2012, we were five years into the smartphone revolution, and most people thought we were...
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4.1KVoice ActivationSmarter 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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4.2KInnovationThe Money-Mover That’s A Money-Mentor, Too
“Can I afford a Tesla? If not, can you help me save for one?” These questions were once reserved for financial advisers....
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8.4KVoice ActivationArtificial 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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4.8KAmazonWelcome To Alexa City
Amazon’s Alexa is overqualified for ordering a pizza or a Lyft, so a few pioneering cities are putting her to work on...
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11.5KVoice ActivationThe 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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3.8KInnovationSoon Say Hello To Samsung’s ‘Bixby’ Speaker
To Bixby or not to Bixby, that is the question – and long after Amazon and Google released their voice-activated assistants and...
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5.1KRetail360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it...
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7.8KBankingLive More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
Singapore’s DBS Bank has a philosophy — Live More, Bank Less — which, at first seems like an odd mission for a multinational bank to...
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6.1KAppleThe Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne:...
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3.6KVoice ActivationVoice 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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4.0KRetailVoice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal
Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King...
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5.2KIntelligence of ThingsGoogle Home Activated By Burger King Ad
Well, that didn’t take very long. In a recent TV spot, Burger King played on the growing number of Google Home smart...
