Two of the world’s leading voice assistant makers pulled the plug on the respective analytics programmes of Siri and Google Assistant after private information including confidential conversations were leaked.
Amazon is collaborating with navigation platform HERE in order to get its Alexa voice UI into the car of the future.
Amazon has unveiled a host of new features and skills for its Alexa virtual assistant, edging the living room closer to the intelligent dream we’ve all been promised.
DirecTV announced today that users of several models of its set-top boxes will be able to select programs, start and stop play, as well as control recording functions with voice, using Amazon’s AI personal assistant Alexa.
Amazon has continually denied its Echo devices are constantly listening and recording conversations in the home, but after one family had an entire conversation sent as an audio file to a friend, questions are being asked.
As Amazon continues to make the early running in the voice UI era with Alexa, Intel has created a special developer kit for it.
Google has made its move in the prolonged battle with Amazon for control of the smart home, but are the speakers a glamourous distraction from the real fight.
While Google is doing its impression of a petulant child, storming home from the park with its football tucked under its arm, Amazon has drafted a host of reinforcements for its Alexa offensive.
Everyone is innovative if you believe what they say, but few companies could even dream of playing the same R&D game as the worlds’ tech big boys.
Amazon and Microsoft have announced their previously competing voice-driven AI assistants are now an item.
Supermarkets be afraid, be very afraid.
UK operator EE has laid claim to being the first UK set-top box provider to support Alexa voice control.
If there is any doubt in which direction the technology world will head next, its being brushed aside by AWS; voice is the natural progression.
Amazon has taken its smart home move up a level (re)entering into the calling and text market, potentially piling further misery on the telcos who are continuing with an identity-crisis in the digital economy.
Having been distracted by the mobile phone market for the past 16 years LG seems to have decided the smart fridge isn’t such a silly idea after all.
