Voice AI

Amazon Employees Debate Idea of Charging for Alexa
Amazon Employees Debate Idea of Charging for Alexa
January 22, 2024  |  Amazon

Would you pay a subscription to use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa? Inside the company, that’s apparently the subject of some debate. A recent Business Insider...

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Report: Apple to Consolidate AI Team in Austin
Report: Apple to Consolidate AI Team in Austin
January 14, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Apple is reportedly closing down a 121-person artificial intelligence (AI) team based in San Diego. This group, called Data Operations Annotations, was informed last week...

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TomTom Develops In-Car Voice AI Assistant With Microsoft
TomTom Develops In-Car Voice AI Assistant With Microsoft
December 19, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

Mapping/navigation company TomTom says it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, in-car conversational assistant in collaboration with Microsoft. The tool offers enhanced voice interaction with infotainment, location search, and...

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AI’s First Year: How Voice Reshaped the Conversational Ecosystem
AI’s First Year: How Voice Reshaped the Conversational Ecosystem
December 18, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

We live during one of the most connected periods of human history. And that is a trend that is only set to accelerate, particularly now...

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World’s First Purpose-Built AI Device is a Screenless, Voice-Activated Smartphone 
World’s First Purpose-Built AI Device is a Screenless, Voice-Activated Smartphone 
November 09, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

The first commercial device purpose-built for the artificial intelligence (AI) era is here. And it came from a pair of ex-Apple employees. No, it’s not that...

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Walmart Moves Into Connected Cars With Voice AI
Walmart Moves Into Connected Cars With Voice AI
November 07, 2023  |  Partnerships

Conversational AI company Native Voice has teamed with Walmart to bring Voice AI to vehicles. The partnership, announced Tuesday (Nov. 7), will see the retail giant sell Native Voice’s “onn.”...

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Thirty Percent of US Millennials Use a Voice Assistant to Pay Bills
Thirty Percent of US Millennials Use a Voice Assistant to Pay Bills
October 24, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

The Voice Economy is gaining momentum as consumers turn to voice technology for a variety of tasks.  The most common tasks performed with this technology...

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Voice Tech’s Renaissance: The Conversation Gets Real with Generative AI Boost
Voice Tech’s Renaissance: The Conversation Gets Real with Generative AI Boost
September 26, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

VoiceTech is finally starting to come into its own.  And it’s all thanks to the increasingly multi-modal capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI).  This, as a...

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Big Tech Eyes Gen AI’s Potential to Revamp Voice Assistants
Big Tech Eyes Gen AI’s Potential to Revamp Voice Assistants
September 07, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

The biggest imagination-capturing advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) so far have been across text-based interfaces.  Even AI-generated images and videos are having a moment....

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