Microsoft Azure Adds New Voices and Styles to Whisper or Shout in Hopeful or Unfriendly Tones Microsoft has augmented the neural text-to-speech (TTS) options of its Azure Cognitive Services with new voices and styles of speaking... AI 10 May 2
Nuance Adds Ambient Clinical AI Assistant to Cerner’s Health Records Healthcare data giant Cerner will embed Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) in its electronic health record (EHR) platform. DAX is.. AI 16 Mar 2
Microsoft Completes $19.7B Nuance Acquisition Microsoft’s purchase of Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion is officially complete, providing the tech giant with all of Nuance’s technology.. AI 7 Mar 2
Microsoft Azure Developing Non-Cortana Voice Assistant for Chinese Carmaker XPeng Microsoft’s Azure AI platform will power the new voice assistant for XPeng, one of China’s largest car companies. Azure is.. Automotive 11 Jan 2
EU Approves Microsoft’s $19.7B Nuance Acquisition The European Commission has ruled that Microsoft’s $19.7 billion acquisition of voice tech mainstay Nuance will not raise any competition.. AI 27 Dec 2
Microsoft Cortana Almost Debuted as Bingo or Alyx Microsoft transformed Cortana from a consumer voice assistant to a business efficiency tool over the last few years. Still, Cortana.. AI 21 Dec 2
Alexa Quietly Dissolves Cortana Integration Microsoft Cortana’s integration with Amazon Alexa has vanished without much fanfare more than three years after launching. The connection ended.. AI 25 Nov 2
Microsoft’s New Azure OpenAI Service Shares GPT-3 Language Model With Enterprise Partners Microsoft introduced a new tool bringing OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-3 language model to at least a few of its enterprise customers... AI 3 Nov 2
Samsung Introduces Bixby for Windows 11 Laptops Samsung has launched a version of Bixby for the new Microsoft Windows 11 operating system. The voice assistant is available.. AI 19 Oct 2
Microsoft Translator Now Counts More Than 100 Languages in Library Microsoft Translator added another dozen languages and dialects to its library this week, giving the service more than 100 languages.. AI 12 Oct 2