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voice activation
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775Merchant 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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1.5KAmazonAmazon 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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1.5KVoice 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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1.4KAmazon 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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2.1KPartnerships / 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...
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2.2KAmazonAlexa 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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4.6KCommerceWho’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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4.6KTech 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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2.1KNewsHow 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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2.0KVoice 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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2.1KInnovationThe 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....
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4.5KVoice 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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2.6KAmazonWelcome 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...
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6.1KVoice 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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1.6KInnovationSoon 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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2.5KRetail360i 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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3.8KBankingLive 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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3.8KAppleThe 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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2.1KVoice 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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2.4KRetailVoice-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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3.5KIntelligence 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...
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2.5KVoice 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...
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3.7KB2B 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....
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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...
