Sections
voice activation
-
1.8KAlexaWill 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...
-
1.3KAlexaFree 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...
-
1.7KVoice 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...
-
2.8KVoice 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...
-
1.7KGoogleGoogle 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...
-
2.4KVoice 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...
-
2.9KVoice 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...
-
5.1KAlexa Voice Challenge
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,...
-
2.2KToday 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...
-
3.2KVoice 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...
-
2.9KVoice 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...
-
3.6KVoice 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...
-
3.2KVoice Activation
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...
-
2.4KVoice 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...
-
6.3KNewsAll 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...
-
5.1KIntelligence 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...
-
9.0KVoice 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...
-
6.0KEcosystemsThe 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...
-
2.5KVoice 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...
-
6.6KVoice 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...
-
5.8KVoice 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...
-
3.2KMerchant 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...
-
3.6KAmazonAmazon 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...
-
3.4KVoice 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...
-
2.5KAmazon 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...
-
4.1KPartnerships / 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...
-
4.8KAmazonAlexa 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...
-
12.3KCommerceWho’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...
-
6.3KTech 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...
-
3.4KNewsHow 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...
-
3.1KVoice 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....
-
3.1KInnovationThe 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....
-
6.4KVoice 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...
-
3.6KAmazonWelcome 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...
-
8.6KVoice 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...
-
2.7KInnovationSoon 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...
-
3.7KRetail360i 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...
-
5.6KBankingLive 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...
-
5.1KAppleThe 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:...
-
2.8KVoice 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...
-
3.1KRetailVoice-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...
-
4.5KIntelligence 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...
-
3.1KVoice ActivationVoice-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...
-
4.5KB2B PaymentsAlexa Authentication A Natural Fit For SME Banking
The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later....
-
DAILY2CNTS
Karen’s Daily Two Cents – Week of 7/18
Friday, July 22, 2016: Happy Friday! Remember when I said in my column on Monday that it was the competitors that you...
