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.
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.
Last January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would build his own AI assistant using Facebook tools to run his home. And this month, it became a reality.
Wynn Resorts announced yesterday that it will have an Amazon Echo in every Las Vegas hotel room by this summer.
Yesterday Microsoft officially confirmed its intentions to get into the smart speaker market with the announcement of a new partnership with Harman Kardon.
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reports that Amazon has sold 5.1 million Echo devices in the U.S. since late 2014.
Chris Mills of BGR argues that Microsoft’s HomeHub, its answer to the Amazon Echo, will be dead on arrival once it launches.