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voice recognition
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AmazonMore Automakers Clamoring For Amazon Alexa
As demand for connectivity in vehicles grows, automakers are clamoring to put Amazon Alexa behind the wheel — or at least in...
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Restaurant innovationTrending: Malibu Poke Gets Personal With Facial Recognition To Order, Pay
U.S. consumers are increasingly turning to digital technology to place food orders. A recent study found online food delivery orders increased nearly...
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Mobile Order AheadDeep Dive: How Artificial Intelligence Makes QSRs Smarter
AI and ML are some of today’s most hotly discussed technologies, sparking both optimism about a future less reliant on human labor...
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Mobile ApplicationsNew Data: U.S. Consumers And The ‘Everyday App’
Each morning, 80 percent of American consumers check their phones before they brush their teeth — but they rarely do so for...
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call center commerceCall Centers Get Smarter — Thanks To AI
Call centers are experiencing increasingly greater volumes, with more than 55 billion agent-assisted calls being handled each year in the U.S. alone....
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GoogleGoogle Offline Voice Recognition App Debuts On Pixel
Google’s new voice recognition app, which works entirely offline, is now available to anyone with a Pixel. “Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech...
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EcosystemsTantalum CEO Talks What’s Working (And What’s Not) In The Connected Automotive Ecosystem
One might have to squint, but they can certainly see it coming — for real (not just hype) in some press release,...
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Amazon InnovationsAmazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor or nurse, detecting illness by a change in...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsFlipkart Buys Voice AI Startup Liv.ai
Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce player being acquired by Walmart, has acquired Liv.ai, the Bengaluru startup working on speech recognition platforms using artificial...
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NewsFive At Five: Amazon Opens Alexa Voice To iOS
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Amazon opening up...
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GoogleGoogle Wants To Bring Voice Tech To Doctors
Google is hiring staff to work on an early-stage research project called Medical Digital Assist, which will use voice recognition to help...
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Voice ActivationSensory CEO On How Voice Recognition Is Growing Up
The ideal goes something like this: Consumers at any location — a friend’s house, a car — could speak into a voice...
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MatchmakersSoundHound GM: The Future Of Voice May Not Go By ‘Google’ Or ‘Alexa’
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope...
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BankingHSBC Gives Corporate Customers Access To Face ID
Banking and financial services provider HSBC has started enabling its corporate customers to access mobile banking using a facial scan. According to a report...
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GoogleThe Big News Out Of I/O
So, what did we learn this week at Google I/O? As Alphabet kicked off its annual developer conference in Mountain View, California,...
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InvestmentsSoundHound Raises $100M In A New Round Of Funding
SoundHound, a voice-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) and conversational intelligence technologies company, announced news on Thursday (May 3) that it has raised $100 million...
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Voice 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...
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Voice 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...
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Voice ActivationSay Hello To Alexa On Android
Amazon continues its mobile journey – as TechCrunch reported, the company has added voice integration to Alexa for the Android app. The...
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B2B PaymentsCFOs, Treasurers Across Asia Eager To Add Biometrics To Payments
Corporate treasurers and chief financial officers (CFOs) across Asia are eager to adopt biometric authentication technologies, according to new research from East...
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Amazon TechnologyAnalysts Say Alexa Will Boost Commerce Sales By $10B
Amazon’s revenue should get a boost thanks to its Alexa voice-activated devices. That’s according to RBC Capital Markets, which, according to CNBC,...
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VISAVisa Survey Shows Consumers Prefer Biometrics Over Passwords
Visa, the payments company, found in a new survey that consumers in America are interested in biometrics technology because of its convenience....
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Security & FraudGiving Voice Recognition A Security Boost
Biometric authentication technology like voice recognition has become a security staple, but with fraudsters designing schemes to beat them, biometrics too may...
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AmazonAlexa 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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Mobile Payments3D Secure 2.0’s Six Pillars
Like Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0, and Vegetables 2.0 (And, yes, that’s a thing. Have you ever had fried brussels sprouts?), 3D-Secure 2.0...
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GoogleGoogle Tracker: Doing Gooooooood
While America was busy watching the solar eclipse (hopefully with the appropriate protective eyewear), Google rolled out its new Android OS and...
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Voice 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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B2B 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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BiometricsBarclays To Accept Voice In Lieu Of Password When Doing Telephone Banking
With banks looking for new ways to enable customers to provide secure transactions, they are increasingly turning to voice recognition, with Barclays announcing a...
- Amazon
Amazon’s Alexa Now Has 1,400+ Skills
Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service and the Alexa Fund in June of last year, and as something of an...
- Mobile Commerce
Netherlands Bank Drops PIN Password For Voice
One bank in the Netherlands is about to get a little more chatty. ING Netherlands announced this week that it has implemented...
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MastercardFighting Digital Attacks, MasterCard Style
MasterCard Thursday (Oct. 2) announced the launch of SafetyNet, which it said was a preemptive security system “to identify potential attacks before...
- Innovation
Smile! MasterCard Toys With Mobile Facial Recognition For Payments
MasterCard is labeling “successful” a biometrics payments trial (facial plus voice) where more than 14,000 transactions were confirmed in a closed iOS...
