voice-activated

Amazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
Amazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
October 15, 2018  |  Amazon Innovations

Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor or nurse, detecting illness by a change in the user’s voice....

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Alexa Voice Interaction Comes To Apple iOS
Alexa Voice Interaction Comes To Apple iOS
August 10, 2018  |  Alexa

To help users on iPhones and iPads use Alexa, Amazon has unveiled voice interaction for the popular voice assistant on its iOS Alexa app. Through...

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Amazon Releases Eight New Voices For Alexa
Amazon Releases Eight New Voices For Alexa
May 17, 2018  |  Alexa

Starting on Wednesday (May 16), developers can apply to participate in a preview that allows the use of eight Amazon Polly U.S. English voices for...

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How Monetization Will Boost Alexa
How Monetization Will Boost Alexa
May 16, 2018  |  Alexa

As of 2016, two years after the world first met Alexa, the marketplace for her apps was a very small place. According to reporting in CNET,...

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Apple Poaches Google’s AI Chief As It Aims To Beef Up Its Offering
Apple Poaches Google’s AI Chief As It Aims To Beef Up Its Offering
April 04, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

Apple, aiming to catch up in the artificial intelligence front, has poached Google’s John Giannandrea, chief of search and AI, in what is seen as...

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The Frightful Five: Echo And Alexa Are A Power Couple
The Frightful Five: Echo And Alexa Are A Power Couple
December 21, 2017  |  Retail

Amazon’s Alexa just learned her 25,000th skill, and the Echo started a price war among voice-activated smart home speakers. How did Google respond (and how did...

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Amazon Takes Echo Global, But Not Local
Amazon Takes Echo Global, But Not Local
December 11, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is making its Echo voice-enabled smart speakers available for purchase in more than 80 countries, but will only ship to the countries via Amazon.com....

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Google Assistant Now Integrated With Waze
Google Assistant Now Integrated With Waze
November 30, 2017  |  Mobile Applications

Now you can ask for directions without taking your eyes off the road: Navigation app Waze, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has...

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Sensory: The Invisible Technology Behind The Voice- Activated Revolution
Sensory: The Invisible Technology Behind The Voice- Activated Revolution
November 30, 2017  |  Biometrics

Sensory is a brand whose name may not be immediately recognizable, but whose tech surely is. “There are any number of devices that, for example, if you’ve...

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