voice technology

Amazon, WeWork Halt Alexa For Business Pilot
Amazon, WeWork Halt Alexa For Business Pilot
November 29, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Amazon and WeWork have reportedly pressed pause on their partnership to introduce Alexa for Business into workspaces, reports in CNBC said this week. The two...

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How Retailers Are Riding The Smart Speaker, Voice Ordering Wave
How Retailers Are Riding The Smart Speaker, Voice Ordering Wave
October 25, 2018  |  Retail

To help consumers order and pay for the items they love, retailers are turning to technology that provides shoppers an alternative to visiting a store...

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Flipkart Buys Voice AI Startup Liv.ai
Flipkart Buys Voice AI Startup Liv.ai
August 21, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce player being acquired by Walmart, has acquired Liv.ai, the Bengaluru startup working on speech recognition platforms using artificial intelligence. According to...

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Alexa Fund Selects Nine Cos For Alexa Accelerator
Alexa Fund Selects Nine Cos For Alexa Accelerator
July 24, 2018  |  Alexa

The Alexa Fund announced that it has chosen nine companies for this year’s Alexa Accelerator. The Accelerator, a program designed to support early-stage startups using voice to...

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Teams Compete To Create The Best AI Chatbot And Win $3.5M Alexa Prize
Teams Compete To Create The Best AI Chatbot And Win $3.5M Alexa Prize
June 14, 2018  |  Alexa

Eight teams are working to build chatbots using Amazon’s resources and win the Alexa Skills $1.5 million prize (with $2 million in other grants and...

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Beyond Mobile Banking, Giving (Alexa’s) Voice to Financial Lives, Naturally
Beyond Mobile Banking, Giving (Alexa’s) Voice to Financial Lives, Naturally
April 03, 2018  |  Alexa

How to bring mobile banking to the realm of the spoken word – beyond the mere recitation of account data? Beyond call and response? Fiserv...

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Getting A Better Conversation Out Of A Smart Virtual Assistant
Getting A Better Conversation Out Of A Smart Virtual Assistant
February 28, 2018  |  Artificial Intelligence

Consumers are increasingly comfortable chatting with their robot friends. A quick glance at the PYMNTS/Visa How We Will Pay survey indicated that a growing segment...

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Google Snags Alexa’s Top AI Visionary
Google Snags Alexa’s Top AI Visionary
February 28, 2018  |  Google

A former senior manager and lead for Alexa AI has left Amazon for a new position at Google. According to Quartz, Ashwin Ram is now...

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Making Voice Assistants Allies In Health
Making Voice Assistants Allies In Health
September 01, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions, and it drives...

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