It seems like everyone wants to be seen with Alexa at this year’s CES. This isn’t surprising considering Amazon’s Amazon Echo and Echo Dot sales this holiday season.
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ArticlesThe Huawei Mate 9 will be available for purchase in the US starting tomorrow. The smart phone is the first to have Amazon’s Alexa pre-installed.
IBM has announced a partnership with BMW to integrate it’s machine-learning and AI technology into BMW vehicles.
Engadget – Samsung’s new robotic vacuum, the Powerbot VR7000, can be controlled by your Amazon Echo device.
Gartner predicts 20% of all user interactions with smartphones will take place via virtual personal assistants by 2019.
Mycroft is different. It isn’t a Silicon Valley giant. But, it is competing directly against the biggest tech companies: Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft.
Gartner estimates there will be 6.4 billion IoT devices in use by the end of this year, a 30% increase from 2015.
Cathy Pearl is the Director of User Experience at Sense.ly, the author of the new book from O’Reilly, Designing Voice User Interfaces, and a scheduled speaker at the upcoming Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco in late January 2017.