Cerence Co-Pilot Introduces Proactive Car Voice Assistant Cerence has a new car voice assistant designed to anticipate what drivers want before they ask named Cerence Co-Pilot. The.. AI 22 Dec 3
Microsoft Cortana Almost Debuted as Bingo or Alyx Microsoft transformed Cortana from a consumer voice assistant to a business efficiency tool over the last few years. Still, Cortana.. AI 21 Dec 2
DARPA Contracts Xerox to Build Augmented Reality Trainer AI The U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has chosen Xerox’s Paolo Alto Research Center (PARC) to create an augmented.. AI 21 Dec 2
Zurich Insurance Group Acquires Conversational AI Startup AlphaChat Zurich Insurance Group is acquiring Estonian conversational AI startup AlphaChat to augment its customer service with virtual agents and chatbots.. AI 20 Dec 2
MLCommons Launches Two Giant Open-Source Speech Datasets AI non-profit consortium MLCommons has released two large speech datasets as open-source resources to improve speech recognition and voice technology... AI 20 Dec 2
Toyota and Lexus Integrate Cerence Browse Voice Search Engine Vehicle-centered voice AI mainstay Cerence will power the voice search engine in future Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota Motor North.. AI 20 Dec 3
Santa Clause is Alexa’s Latest Celebrity Voice Santa Claus has joined Alexa’s list of global celebrity voice options. Like Shaquille O’Neal, Melissa McCarthy, and Samuel L. Jackson,.. AI 16 Dec 3
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-3 Customization Tools OpenAI has released new fine-tuning features for its GPT-3 natural language model. The new tools enable developers to customize GPT-3,.. AI 15 Dec 2
Verbit Acquires Education-Centered Transcription Firm Automatic Sync Technologies Verbit has acquired fellow transcription technology developer Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) for an unrevealed sum. AST will augment Verbit with.. AI 15 Dec 2
Netflix Taps SoundHound to Develop Voice Assistant for TV Set-Top Boxes Netflix will add a voice assistant provided by SoundHound to its new Da Vinci Reference Design Kit (RDK) product... AI 15 Dec 4