Voice Activation

Voice Activation
Report: Alexa Is Everywhere, Google Assistant Smarter
July 09, 2018

Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant Alexa and Google’s Assistant are leading the voice digital speaker market, with competition between the two expected to get even fiercer. According to a report in CNBC citing five ad agencies who have worked on projects for both Amazon and Google...

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Yandex Eats Up Russian Market Share With Plus Membership, Smart Speaker
May 30, 2018

Amazon, Google and Apple are all gunning to become the biggest name in the global smart speaker market, but Russia is one country that has been more or less left alone by the international tech giants. Over the past 20 years, Russia has instead been...

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Alexa Snafu Raises Concerns For Smart Speaker Skeptics
May 25, 2018

Many have worried that Amazon’s Alexa is spying on them through their Echo device. Others, like this Oregon family, merely joked about it — until one day, the voice-activated assistant gave them evidence. The family said the Echo recorded a conversation they were having without...

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Sensory CEO On How Voice Recognition Is Growing Up
May 24, 2018

The ideal goes something like this: Consumers at any location — a friend’s house, a car — could speak into a voice assistant or smart speaker and be instantly recognized by the device no matter who owns it. That consumer could make secure transactions or...

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The Chatbot Revolution: When, Not If
May 17, 2018

Sometime around the year 2000, small business (SMB) owners woke up one day and realized they needed a website. The case for SMBs having their own websites is so clear as to be moot today, but that wasn’t the case in the early days of...

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Silent Commands Compromise Security For Alexa, Siri
May 11, 2018

Researchers have discovered possible security implications for digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google’s Assistant. According to a report in The New York Times, over the last two years, researchers in the United States and Canada have discovered ways to send hidden...

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Voice And Visual: Better Together On The Echo Show
March 22, 2018

There’s a lot that developers can do with voice, and that’s at the heart of the PYMNTS.com Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa – but there’s even more that can be done with voice and visuals together. At least, that’s what Keith Riddle, EVP, enterprise solutions...

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Semafone’s Dos And Don’ts Of The Voice Challenge With Amazon Alexa
March 20, 2018

Hello there. Hey. Hi. How ya doin’? If you’re a human, these greetings likely mean the same thing to you — but if you’re a voice-activated assistant, things may not be so simple. Yet, according to Ben Rafferty, Global Solutions Director at Semafone, that is...

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Voice: A Growing Piece Of The Omnicommerce Pie
February 08, 2018

If a customer wants some red Nike running shoes in size 11, he can use his web browser or phone to navigate to Nike’s website, find the shoes, choose the color and select a size — or he can just say, “Alexa (or Google, or Siri),...