voice assistant

Amazon Expands Alexa Skills To Include Kid Skills
Amazon Expands Alexa Skills To Include Kid Skills
September 01, 2017  |  Amazon Innovations

Amazon wants everyone to use Alexa, including children and it has launched new skills in the U.S. targeted at America’s youngest consumers. In a blog...

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Alexa And Cortana Forge Virtual Friendship
Alexa And Cortana Forge Virtual Friendship
August 31, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are now on voice command speaking terms. The companies announced news on Wednesday (Aug. 30) that owners of either company’s...

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Google Assistant To Be Integrated Into A Bevy Of Devices
Google Assistant To Be Integrated Into A Bevy Of Devices
August 31, 2017  |  Google

Alphabet’s Google, aiming to expand the use of its voice-activated assistant and close the gap on Amazon’s Alexa, is gearing up to put its Google...

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Banking, with Artificial (and Real) Intelligence
Banking, with Artificial (and Real) Intelligence
August 29, 2017  |  Banking

Can traditional banking get a lift from conversation – specifically, chatbots?  One firm, Kasisto, thinks so, with its KAI Banking, a  conversational AI platform acting as a...

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Alexa And Echo SVP At Amazon Bows Out
Alexa And Echo SVP At Amazon Bows Out
July 17, 2017  |  Personnel

Alexa, how should one enjoy retirement? News came Friday that Amazon VP Mike George — one of the driving forces behind Alexa, the voice assistant, and...

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Prime Day Just May Beat Previous Sales Records
Prime Day Just May Beat Previous Sales Records
July 12, 2017  |  Retail

It’s the day after Amazon’s Prime Day, and reports are already coming out that the eCommerce giant is on its way to breaking its previous...

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Today In Data: Amazon Alexa Leads Voice Assistant Market
Today In Data: Amazon Alexa Leads Voice Assistant Market
May 09, 2017  |  Today In Data

With Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple’s Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant market has seen mass expansion over the past few years. The convenience of...

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Amazon Helps The World Build Better Bots
Amazon Helps The World Build Better Bots
April 20, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

The race to voice-activated software is on. This week, Amazon announced it’s rolling out the technology behind its voice assistant Alexa. With this information, developers have...

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Microsoft Enhances Cortana, Gets Access To Android Lock Screen
Microsoft Enhances Cortana, Gets Access To Android Lock Screen
March 29, 2017  |  Mobile Commerce

Microsoft announced this week that Cortana, its voice assistant that it rolled out a year ago on Android and iOS devices in the U.S. and...

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