Rumor Mill: Spotify Working on New Smart Speaker? MusicAlly is reporting the appearance of two new job listings for Spotify that suggest a hardware product will soon be.. AI 20 Feb 2
Microsoft Cortana Now Works with IFTTT and Additional Smart Home Devices Microsoft Cortana is often overlooked when voice assistants are discussed. However, a few minutes using Cortana shows it is a.. AI 19 Feb 3
Amazon Developing AI Chip to Make Alexa Faster The Information is reporting (N.B. paywall) that Amazon is developing its own AI chip specifically designed for use by the Alexa.. AI 13 Feb 1
Voicebot Podcast Episode 29 – Tobias Goebel, Aspect Software, on Computational Linguistics, Chatbots and Voice Assistants Tobias Goebel is Senior Director, Emerging Technologies for Aspect Software. He has a Masters Degree in Computational Linguistics and has.. AI 12 Feb 1
Siri Does Better Than Expected in Voice Assistant Face Off, But Google Still Leads Apple Siri trails voice assistant competitors in many capabilities categories. That is well documented here and elsewhere. However, in terms.. AI 12 Feb 3
Is it Time for Enterprise Voice Assistant Adoption in Europe? Orange Bus AI specialist, Dan Whaley, and Innovations Consultant, Steve Molesworth, recently attended the Smart Voice Summit in Paris, Europe’s.. AI 10 Feb 1
Intel Vaunt Smart Glasses Show New Multimodal Voice Interface Intel has demonstrated a new set of smart glasses called Vaunt for Dieter Bohn from The Verge and they are very.. AI 6 Feb 2
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
Virtual Digital Assistant Software to Reach $7.7 Billion and 1 Billion Users in 2025 Tractica has published a report that estimates 2017 market size for virtual digital assistants (VDA) software was $816 million. The.. AI 1 Feb 1