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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...
Techstars Seattle grad raises cash to record meetings and build a ‘personal memory bank’ for users – GeekWire
Kristalic co-founder Jos van der Westhuizen pitches at Techstars Seattle Demo Day in May. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) A Techstars Seattle grad that wants...
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...
Block.one unveils “Voice” blockchain-based social media platform
Block.one, a software publisher specializing in blockchain technology – its first project being the open-source protocol EOSIO, this past weekend announced Voice, a blockchain-based social...
Block.One’s New Social Media Site Will Do Identity Checks for Every User
Block.one is going to keep bots off its social media platform by checking the identity of every single user against a government ID, a source...