Alexa Super Bowl Ad Didn’t Wake Up Your Echo and Took Top Honors Amazon Alexa won the Super Bowl of ad spots during last night’s game according to the USA Today’s Ad Meter... AI 5 Feb 1
Amazon Announces the 2018 Alexa Prize Participants In the fall of 2016, Amazon announced introduced the Alexa Prize, a $3.5 million university competition to create socialbots to.. AI 2 Feb 2
Alexa Can Now Send SMS for Android Users Android users will soon be able to initiate text messages from Alexa. Voicebot was first to report in August that.. Amazon Alexa 31 Jan 1
Amazon Alexa Super Bowl Ad Voice Replacements Are Celebrities Amazon caused a minor stir this past weekend with its pre-Super Bowl commercial with the storyline that Alexa had lost.. AI 31 Jan 2
Amazon Still Protecting Alexa Users from Ads Despite Sony Entreaties The Information is reporting (N.B. paywall) that Sony became frustrated last year when Amazon refused to allow ads to be played.. Alexa Skills 30 Jan 1
Does Amazon Super Bowl Ad Suggest Alexa is Getting New Voices? There are active LinkenIn and Twitter discussion threads about whether a new Super Bowl ad from Amazon is intended to.. Amazon Alexa 29 Jan 1
CIRP Says 18 Million Smart Speakers Sold in Q4 2017 Bringing Installed Base to 45 Million Updated: January 28, 2018 based on additional information provided by CIRP to Voicebot. CIRP survey data suggests total smart speaker.. Amazon Echo 26 Jan 1
January 2018 Voice App Totals Per Voice Assistant Individually, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana all made significant strides in 2017 when it came to their voice.. Alexa Skills 26 Jan 2
Amazon Echo is Now Shipping to Ireland – How You Can Tell Who Might Get Alexa Localization Next Amazon Echo is now shipping to Ireland according to a blog post by Amazon’s lead EU Alexa evangelist, Max Amordeluso... Amazon Alexa 25 Jan 1
Voicebot Podcast Episode 26 – All About Voice App Analytics with Dashbot CEO Arte Merritt Voice assistants and chatbots have ushered in a new UI and interaction model for consumers. Conversational interactions are very different.. Amazon Alexa 22 Jan 1