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.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

How Consumers Want to Live in a Conversational Voice Economy
How Consumers Want to Live in a Conversational Voice Economy
April 24, 2023  |  Voice Activation

Consumers live their lives in a digital-first, connected world — habits formed after three years of a forced shift to digital. And they like it...

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AI Is the Glue That Will Bind Voice Assistants, Cars and Commerce
AI Is the Glue That Will Bind Voice Assistants, Cars and Commerce
March 20, 2023  |  Connected Economy

The connections already forged between consumers, their mobile devices, home speakers and voice assistants will forge the connections between conversational AI, cars and commerce conducted...

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Why Mastering the Restaurant Carry-Out Menu Is the Key to Voice AI’s Future
Why Mastering the Restaurant Carry-Out Menu Is the Key to Voice AI’s Future
January 17, 2023  |  Voice Activation

Voice AI is smartening up to fulfill the promise of life without keyboards. Many of us have marveled at the dumbness of answers that, say,...

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The Year in Payments: From BNPL to FTX to the Digital Economy
The Year in Payments: From BNPL to FTX to the Digital Economy
December 28, 2022  |  Karen Webster

Looking for analysis of everything from the digital economy to consumers’ instincts about inflation? Let Monday be your guide. “Monday.” It comes from the Anglo-Saxon...

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The Greatly Exaggerated Demise of Alexa, eCommerce and the Card Networks
The Greatly Exaggerated Demise of Alexa, eCommerce and the Card Networks
November 28, 2022  |  Platform Payments

Almost 57 years ago to the day, the 1960’s rock band The Byrds appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show to sing their number one hit...

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Google Search Rolls Out Tools to Boost Visual and Voice Shopping
Google Search Rolls Out Tools to Boost Visual and Voice Shopping
October 26, 2022  |  Retail

You might only be looking to buy a plunger but from Google’s point of view, these kind of “in stock near me” search queries remain...

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Say What? Shopping in the Metaverse Will Require AI-Powered Voice
Say What? Shopping in the Metaverse Will Require AI-Powered Voice
October 13, 2022  |  Metaverse

Beyond the most basic point-and-click interactions, commerce in the metaverse will likely require some sort of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice interaction. This can start with...

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Keeping up With the Connected Joneses
Keeping up With the Connected Joneses
October 07, 2022  |  Connected Economy

Another day. Another dollar. Another item in your Amazon cart to avoid a trek to your local big box store. Another voice command to “Dim...

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What 2014 Teaches Us About the Future of Payments and the Digital Economy
What 2014 Teaches Us About the Future of Payments and the Digital Economy
October 03, 2022  |  Connected Economy

In 1963, Nobel-prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor wrote that the future can’t be predicted, but it can be invented. Gabor, who won the Nobel for...

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