People Want Voice Assistants to Mirror Them: Study Voice assistants that imitate the conversational style of the user are more trustworthy and likable, according to a new study.. AI 23 Sep 3
Emotion AI Will Enhance Jobs, Not Replace Them In breathless editorials, on television news programs, and on social media, there’s an increasing fervor over AI and its impact.. AI 21 Sep 2
Amazon’s Alexa Now Speaks Hindi and Hinglish Two years after launching Alexa in India, Amazon’s voice assistant now speaks Hindi, the language spoken by more than 500.. AI 19 Sep 5
Oracle Adds Voice Assistant to Enterprise Apps Oracle has debuted a new voice assistant as part of its suite of business applications at its OpenWorld event this.. AI 19 Sep 3
Descript Acquires Lyrebird and Lands $15 Million in Funding From Andreessen Horowitz and Redpoint TechCrunch reported this morning that Descript has acquired synthetic voice generation company Lyrebird and closed a $15 million funding round.. AI 18 Sep 2
Tencent’s WeChat Xiaowei Voice Assistant May Launch Later This Year China Daily is reporting that the Tencent voice assistant, Xiaowei, may be launched as early as this year. Bloomberg first.. AI 17 Sep 3
Betaworks is Listening for Audiocamp Startup Pitches New York startup studio Betaworks is looking for the next big ideas in audio to join its upcoming Audiocamp. The.. AI 17 Sep 1
IFA 2019 Takes Assistants Everywhere to a New Level The IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) Show occurred this past week in Berlin. It is certainly Europe’s largest tech show, and some.. AI 14 Sep 3
Alexa Answers Crowdsources Knowledge Alexa Lacks Amazon released its information crowdsourcing feature Alexa Answers to the general public this week after a nine-month beta test. Alexa.. AI 13 Sep 4
FrontdeskAI Turns Gym’s Virtual Customer Service into $30K Savings a Year Business AI developer FrontdeskAI has reached a new benchmark, saving its client Sensory Fitness tens of thousands of dollars a.. AI 12 Sep 3