Alexa Wants You to Answer Questions Amazon’s new Alexa Answers program solicits select Alexa users to answer questions posed by other users that Alexa cannot already.. AI 6 Dec 1
McAfee Says Smart Speakers Could Become Targets for Sophisticated Malware in 2019 Last week McAfee released the McAfee Labs 2019 Threats Predictions Report which details seven different security threat predictions identified by the.. AI 6 Dec 1
Audioburst and LGE Announce In-Car Infotainment Partnership Today, Audioburst and LGE (LG Electronics) announced their partnership to integrate the Audioburst Deep Analysis API for Live Audio Streams.. AI 5 Dec 1
Qualcomm’s New Venture Fund to Invest $100M in On-Device AI Startups Last week, Qualcomm announced the Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund, a $100 million fund that will invest in startups working on.. AI 3 Dec 2
Video: The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Technology That Understands Our Language, and the Voice Revolution’s Impact on Elders I had the honor to present recently to the NIC Fall Conference 2018 in Chicago and talk about the evolution.. AI 30 Nov 3
Neural Text-To-Speech Development Allows Alexa to Sound More Realistic We will likely be seeing Amazon roll out new speaking styles for Alexa soon. Last week, the Alexa Speech Team.. AI 29 Nov 1
Amazon Unveils the 2018 Alexa Prize Winner: Gunrock The Alexa Prize Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to advancing the field of conversational AI. Initially introduced.. AI 28 Nov 2
Google Assistant’s AI Call Screening Feature to get Transcription Support in 2018 At the Pixel 3 launch Google demoed a new call screening feature which allows users to have Google Assistant pick up and.. AI 27 Nov 1
Video Shows Google Duplex Making a Real Restaurant Reservation – Says it is Google Calling and the Call Will Be Recorded, Full Analysis One of the first demonstrations of Google Duplex at the I/O developer conference in May involved making a restaurant reservation. Sundar.. AI 25 Nov 2
Google Assistant Now Available in Brazilian Portuguese on Android, iOS and Even Google Home Brazilian Portuguese is now available on Google Assistant for Android, iOS and some are reporting use on Google Home. Google.. AI 19 Nov 3