10 Minutes On Amazon’s Real Reason for Acquiring iRobot with Voicebot’s Bret Kinsella (Video) Amazon last week announced it was acquiring iRobot for $1.7 billion. The Roomba robot vacuum maker just posted questionable financial.. 10 Minutes On 9 Aug 7
Google’s Read Along App and AI Assistant Launches Web Version Google has introduced a web version of its popular Read Along educational app for teaching children to read. The website.. Education 9 Aug 2
Evan MacMillan CEO of Gridspace on Conversational AI Intelligence and Voice Bots for the Contact Center – Voicebot Podcast Ep 266 Evan MacMillan started Gridspace 10 years ago to tackle a tough problem faced by contact centers: analyzing their conversational data... AI 8 Aug 2
Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Assistant Patents Google continued its legal battle with Sonos in a new lawsuit on Monday, claiming Sonos’ new voice assistant infringes on.. AI 8 Aug 2
Amazon Spends $1.7B for Roomba Developer iRobot to Grab Robot Vacuum Market Lead Amazon will pay $1.7 billion to acquire Roomba robot vacuum creator iRobot. The acquisition completes the steadily growing alignment between.. Amazon Alexa 5 Aug 3
Sky Glass Smart TV Add YouTube Voice Search The Sky Glass smart TV has upgraded the native voice assistant to enable vocal searches on YouTube. The new feature.. AI 5 Aug 2
Tune in Tomorrow for Alexa Live, Free Online Conference for Voice Developers Alexa Live is an online conference hosted by Amazon and will be held tomorrow, May 2nd. Skill builders of all.. AI 1 May 3
Chatterbox is a DIY Kids Smart Speaker that Features Open-Source and Private Voice Assistant, Mycroft Chatterbox is a build-it-yourself, program-it-yourself smart speaker that teaches kids how to program a voice-based AI system. The company is.. AI 29 Apr 1
Inference Solutions Announces Google CCAI Support And Inference Studio 6.1 Inference Solutions announced today support for Google’s Contact Center AI (CCAI) in Studio 6.0 in addition to a new version.. AI 24 Apr 2
U.K. Residents Can Ask About More Than 12,000 Pieces of Government Information With Alexa and Google Assistant GOV.UK announced two days ago that Alexa and Google Home can now be used by U.K. residents to find out.. AI 23 Apr 1
IBM’s Watson for Drug Discovery Program No Longer Taking New Clients IBM announced recently that it is discontinuing the development and sales of its Watson for Drug Discovery product. Poor financial.. AI 22 Apr 0
Audioburst Closes $10 Million in Funding Including Investments from Dentsu and Hyundai, Announces Launch in Japan Audioburst announced this morning that it had closed a new $10 million funding round that included strategic investments from Dentsu.. AI 22 Apr 3