Pandora launches interactive voice ads
Pandora has begun to test a new type of advertising format that allows listeners to respond to the ad by speaking aloud. In the new...
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Salesforce finds its voice: Acquisitions and new tools add fuel to AI fire at Dreamforce
When the weeklong agenda at a tech conference includes a former president of the United States, the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and a...
Amazon’s voice-based Alexa skill personalization is now generally available
Future voice skills built for Alexa might respond uniquely to your voice. That’s thanks to Alexa skill personalization, a feature of the Alexa Skills Kit...
Alexa gains lighting features like sleep timers and dimming Routines
Alexa will soon be able to orchestrate your home’s smart lights with more finesse, Amazon announced this morning. Starting today, customers in the U.S. who’ve...
Smart Bricks meet Clicks & Voice – the Walmart Way
PHYGITAL E-commerce giant Amazon is a big player in many markets. From e-commerce, cloud, delivery, entertainment, payments, smart home devices, and physical stores. Retail giant...
Amazon rolls out developer tools to improve Alexa voice apps
Amazon is adding a trio of new tools to the Alexa Skills Kit, a suite of self-service APIs and resources for conversational app development, designed...
The Alexa Skills Store now has more than 100,000 voice apps
The Alexa Skills Store — where Alexa users can browse, view, and manage third-party apps and services — now has over 100,000 apps, up from...
Amazon unveils voice interoperability initiative with more than 30 companies— but no Google or Apple – GeekWire
Amazon’s Echo Dot. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Amazon announced a big partnership on Tuesday called the Voice Interoperability Initiative, taking a stand on how...
Evil tech giants already read your emails and monitor your voice in your own home; now they want your BLOOD and DNA – Investment Watch
by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) You may recall our earlier reporting about the collapse of Theranos, the fraudulent blood testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes that’s no...
Alexa users can now donate to U.S. presidential candidates
The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election is just over a year away, and ahead of it, Amazon’s debuting a new feature — Alexa Political Contributions —...
Google Assistant adds 9 new AI-generated voices
Google Assistant can talk and sing like John Legend in the U.S., and it’s conversant in over 30 languages in 80 countries (up from 8...
Amid scrutiny, Apple freezes human reviews of Siri conversations
Apple Inc. has put the brakes on an internal quality assurance program in which contractors listened to voice recordings captured by Siri. The iPhone maker...
Amazon sued by early voice tech developers who allege that company infringed on patents – GeekWire
Voicebox CEO Mike Kennewick. (VoiceBox Photo) Former investors and employees from VoiceBox Technologies are suing Amazon, alleging that the Seattle tech giant infringed on six...
Amazon adds 2,500 recordings to the Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library
Voice app developers, rejoice: A host of new recordings today joined Amazon’s Alexa audio asset library, more than quintupling it in size. The Seattle-based tech...
Block.One Pays $30M For a Voice.com Domain Name Meant For its Social Network— Voice
Based on a recent report, Block.One has deposited a sum of $30 million in cash as payment for a domain name which it acquired for...