Alexa, how much is in the till? Increasingly talking dollars and cents (or should that be sense?) is less a conversation held person to person than person to bot. And across channels, from virtual assistant to mobile, the conversation has to be seamless – which...
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved and matured, and so has the voice-activated landscape. Three years ago, developers had to think of skills in terms of a cylindrical speaker...
In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart speaker products — the idea of regularly interacting with a voice-controlled virtual assistant has gone from being the stuff of science fiction and...
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 exactly what developers should be aiming to teach these machines […]
February 14, 2018
Alexa, how much is in the till? Increasingly talking dollars and cents (or should that be sense?) is less a conversation held person to person than person to bot. And...
January 12, 2018
The 2018 Amazon Alexa Voice Challenge is a different competition than in years past — naturally, since the voice-activated assistant herself has evolved and matured, and so has the voice-activated landscape....
January 03, 2018
In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart speaker products — the idea of regularly interacting...
