Cortana bringing voice assistant magic to Microsoft Teams mobile apps
Cortana is ready to be your personal business assistant on your iPhone or Android phone. Full Story: Windows Central
Amazon’s Alexa app will soon let you speak commands without pressing the blue button
Amazon is making a small tweak to the Alexa companion app on iOS and Android; in a few days you’ll no longer need to tap the blue Alexa button on your screen to say a voice command, TechCrunch reports. Full Story: The Verge
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant gets a long overdue feature on Android and iOS
In many ways, Alexa can be considered a more powerful, versatile, and convenient virtual assistant than Google and Apple’s alternatives, constantly getting cool new features, skills, and major improvements centered primarily on smart home use. Full Story: PhoneArena
Fonbet Uses ‘Alice’ Voice Assistant To Build Better Customer Experience
Every month, more than 5,000 users now ask ‘Alice’ about current promotions on Fonbet, whose virtual voice assistant has a declared accuracy of around 90%. Full Story: Inkedin
How To Build A Chatbot That Doesn’t Sacrifice The Human Touch
The ability to seamlessly engage customers in a digitally enabled conversation is critical nowadays to delivering a superb customer experience (CX). Full Story: Forbes
The Great Voice Assistant Face-Off
I finally made up with my Amazon living room smart speaker. That’s the one I called Echo, so Alexa doesn’t answer by mistake. Alexa lives inside a Sonos One speaker in the bedroom. Same voice assistant, different speakers. Full Story: EE Times
Designing for Voice: Building Trust in Ambient Intelligence
Why voice assistants, spoken command and hands-free devices are pushing technology into the background. Full Story: Machine Design
A platform to design your own Alexa Skills
This is because only a few companies and industry experts have actually been encouraged to create their own voice assistant programs and skills. Full Story: Explica
Mozilla Updates Massive Open Source Voice Data Collection
Mozilla has released a large set of voice data as part of its Common Voice program. The open-source collection of transcribed recordings and metadata is offered by Mozilla to designers of voice apps and voice-enabled devices. Full Story: Voicebot.ai
Five easy-to-use Alexa commands to get you started with a voice assistant
Amazon Alexa can be fun but also incredibly useful, especially for older, vulnerable or isolated people. Find out how with our beginner’s guide. Full Story: Which?