Voice Activated Assistants news and trends

Amazon’s Alexa Wins The Digital Assistant Popularity Contest
Alexa // May 13, 2019

Amazon’s voice-activated assistant Alexa has emerged as the most-used voice assistant on the market. That’s according to Digital Trends, which — citing Amazon — reported Alexa is found in more than 60,000 smart home devices from 7,400 companies. That’s up from just 12,000 devices a...

Bixby Eyes Third-Party Integration
Voice Activation // November 05, 2018

Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant, to third-party app developers. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal late last week, Samsung is aiming to boost its voice-activated...

Sonos CEO Says Google Assistant Integration Should Come Before Holidays
Voice Activation // August 03, 2018

Sonos, the newly-public smart speaker company, which debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday (August 3), is gearing up to roll out integration with Google Assistant soon. In an interview with The Verge, Patrick Spence, chief executive of Sonos, said the integration should come “later this year”...

Amazon’s New Chip To Make Alexa Even Smarter
Amazon // February 13, 2018

Amazon is reportedly working on its own artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled chip to interface with Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, according to a Monday (Feb. 12) report by technology news source Engadget. The chip would work on all Alexa-powered devices, including the company’s Echo line of...

Interviews & Exclusives
Millennials Will Lead The Voice Commerce Revolution

October 19, 2020
Consumers across all age demographics have radically realigned their lives over the last eight months. To say that we aren’t quite the same people we were a year ago might seem overly dramatic. Still, the 2020 edition of the PYMNTS |Visa How We Will Pay consumer survey of a national sample of roughly 10,000 U.S. consumers […]

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Amazon’s Alexa Wins The Digital Assistant Popularity Contest

May 13, 2019
Amazon’s voice-activated assistant Alexa has emerged as the most-used voice assistant on the market. That’s according to Digital Trends, which — citing Amazon — reported Alexa is found in more than 60,000 smart home devices from 7,400 companies. That’s up from just 12,000 devices a year earlier. Digital Trends noted that in September Amazon said […]

Bixby Eyes Third-Party Integration

November 05, 2018
Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant, to third-party app developers. According to a report...

Sonos CEO Says Google Assistant Integration Should Come Before Holidays

August 03, 2018
Sonos, the newly-public smart speaker company, which debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday (August 3), is gearing up to roll out integration with Google Assistant soon. In an interview with The...

Amazon’s New Chip To Make Alexa Even Smarter

February 13, 2018
Amazon is reportedly working on its own artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled chip to interface with Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, according to a Monday (Feb. 12) report by technology news source...