voice activation

A voice-user interface makes spoken human interaction with computers possible, using speech recognition to understand spoken commands and answer questions, and typically text to speech to play a reply. A voice command device is a device controlled with a voice user interface.

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360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
June 30, 2017  |  Retail

360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it all depends what...

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Live More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
Live More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
June 29, 2017  |  Banking

Singapore’s DBS Bank has a philosophy — Live More, Bank Less — which, at first seems like an odd mission for a multinational bank to adopt. Unless, of...

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The Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
The Over/Under On Apple’s Ecosystem
June 14, 2017  |  Apple

HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne: fine-tuned, exclusive and...

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Voice Activated Tracker: Google Voice Is Coming To iPhones
Voice Activated Tracker: Google Voice Is Coming To iPhones
May 24, 2017  |  Voice Activation

If you tell Siri, “You’re fired,” she’ll come back with a quavering protest: “But, but…” That feeble protest may be the best Apple can offer...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal
Voice-Activated Tracker: Google Home Gets Personal
April 18, 2017  |  Retail

Ready or not, here they come … marketers, that is. Everyone’s itching to get on the smart speaker monetization train. Burger King — rather than wait...

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Google Home Activated By Burger King Ad
Google Home Activated By Burger King Ad
April 13, 2017  |  Intelligence of Things

Well, that didn’t take very long. In a recent TV spot, Burger King played on the growing number of Google Home smart speakers in American...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Milestones
Voice-Activated Tracker: Milestones
February 28, 2017  |  Voice Activation

We’ll say it again: They grow up so fast. The past few weeks have seen some major milestones surpassed in the voice-enabled ecosystem. First up:...

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Alexa Authentication A Natural Fit For SME Banking
Alexa Authentication A Natural Fit For SME Banking
February 24, 2017  |  B2B Payments

The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later. Mike Carter, chief...

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