As smart speakers surge in popularity, Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google Home by a wide margin, SlashGear reported on...
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh has reportedly indicated that the device would be...
A new report shows that smart speaker sales are on the rise, with Amazon taking the top spot in shipments. Strategy Analytics...
When it comes to the competition for developer mindshare in voice apps, Amazon is well ahead of Google. Amazon recently announced that the...
Just in time for the holiday season, Amazon is adding a bunch of new features to its voice-activated digital assistant Alexa, including...
Before there was Alexa, Bixby, Siri and Google Assistant, there was Emma Nutt. Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town...
When a consumer talks to a voice assistant, odds are very good that Alexa‘s is the digital voice they will hear. According...
Alexa may be on the move. A California-based chipmaker, DSP Group, is working on a small, standardized chip that device manufacturers can...
Amazon, Google and Apple are all gunning to become the biggest name in the global smart speaker market, but Russia is one...
Many have worried that Amazon’s Alexa is spying on them through their Echo device. Others, like this Oregon family, merely joked about...
Google might be feeling pretty smart today about its high-tech Home and Home Mini speakers. That’s because a new research report puts...
Sometime around the year 2000, small business (SMB) owners woke up one day and realized they needed a website. The case for...
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...
Troy wakes up, checks his calendar while brushing his teeth and pays his bills as he gets dressed. He checks account balances,...
The fact that the world is changing rapidly shouldn’t come as much of a shock — though the speed and centers of...
Hello there. Hey. Hi. How ya doin’? If you’re a human, these greetings likely mean the same thing to you — but...
If a customer wants some red Nike running shoes in size 11, he can use his web browser or phone to navigate...
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...
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved...
Amazon, undeniably, has the early lead in the race for smart speaker dominance. Its Echo line of products powered by Alexa — the...
Voice activation, artificial intelligence, alternative financing and IPOs: These were some of the year’s hottest topics in the payments industry – and...
“Alexa?” “Hey, Siri…” “Okay, Google…” “Hi, Bixby…” If we told the average person in early 2013 that someday it was going to...
Dan, like many millions of Americans this time of the year, is traveling for the holidays. Three weeks ago, he logged onto...
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...
Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style...
Between smart speakers, smartphones and smart cars, speech has become an accepted and natural way to interact with electronics, both at home...
Millions of American consumers have welcomed Amazon’s Alexa and other voice assistants into their homes. These assistants help with basic tasks and...
To take on Siri and Alexa, Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, has announced its Bixby 2.0, a reinvention of...
Amazon is expanding the number of Alexa custom lists users can create, a move to enhance one of its voice-activated digital assistant’s...
Voice shopping is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s one that nearly 20 percent of consumers have used and another 33...
Despite the efforts on the part of competitors to reign in Amazon’s leadership in the voice-activated smart speaker market, thanks to the...
Aiming to compete better with the likes of Amazon and Walmart, Target announced news on Thursday (Oct. 12) of a new partnership...
Amazon’s Alexa now offers voice recognition that can tell the difference between family members’ voices. Users can set up voice recognition using...
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale...
The voice-activated assistant is gaining currency with consumers. Use of the devices is growing like gangbusters. Research from eMarketer shows that as many...
Think back just five years ago. In 2012, we were five years into the smartphone revolution, and most people thought we were...
OK, Google. Listen up, Alexa. Playtime’s over. It’s time to step outside the smart home and begin to build the smart office....
“Can I afford a Tesla? If not, can you help me save for one?” These questions were once reserved for financial advisers....
Paging Dr. Alexa: How are you feeling? It may not be long before virtual, voice-controlled assistants can tell and answer accordingly. Mattersight...
Amazon’s Alexa is overqualified for ordering a pizza or a Lyft, so a few pioneering cities are putting her to work on...
It’s been a little over a year since our Digital Banking Tracker heralded the “Dawn of Banking Voice Technology.” Now it’s more...
To Bixby or not to Bixby, that is the question – and long after Amazon and Google released their voice-activated assistants and...
360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it...
Singapore’s DBS Bank has a philosophy — Live More, Bank Less — which, at first seems like an odd mission for a multinational bank to...
HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne:...
If you tell Siri, “You’re fired,” she’ll come back with a quavering protest: “But, but…” That feeble protest may be the best...
Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King...
Well, that didn’t take very long. In a recent TV spot, Burger King played on the growing number of Google Home smart...
We’ll say it again: They grow up so fast. The past few weeks have seen some major milestones surpassed in the voice-enabled...