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Voice Year in Review 2021 The Enterprise Edition – Voicebot Podcast Ep 239 This week we discuss voice year in review for 2021. All of the guests in this episode are based.. AI 27 Dec 11
EU Approves Microsoft’s $19.7B Nuance Acquisition The European Commission has ruled that Microsoft’s $19.7 billion acquisition of voice tech mainstay Nuance will not raise any competition.. AI 27 Dec 2
Oracle Buys Cerner for $28.3B Oracle announced it will purchase health technology developer Cerner for about $28.3 billion and is explicitly planning to expand its.. AI 23 Dec 2
Alexa Voice Service Adds English Option to SK Telecom’s Korean Voice Assistant SK Telecom smart speakers can now converse in English as well as Korean using Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service (AVS), as.. AI 23 Dec 2
Jon Stine Founder and Executive Director of the Open Voice Network – Voicebot Podcast Ep 238 Jon Stine is the Executive Director and founder of the Open Voice Network. Prior to founding OVN, Stine was global.. AI 22 Dec 10
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