- Huawei Intros Voice Assistant 'Celia'
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 27, 2020
The voice agent is being added to Huawei's latest P40 phone series in U.K., France, Spain, Chile, Columbia and Mexico. ...
- Amazon's Alexa Can Now Help With COVID-19 Diagnosis
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 27, 2020
Using CDC guidance, Amazon lets consumers check their risk level for COVID-19 by answering Alexa's questions. ...
- Progressive Disclosure In Voice-First Technology: What Marketers Need To Know
Search Marketing Daily, Dustin Coates - Thursday, March 5, 2020
Progressive disclosure -- gradually revealing more information at just the right time -- is an effective approach to guide users on the voice journey. ...
- Researchers Find Inaudible Attack On Siri, Google Voice Assistants
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 2, 2020
Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated to make phone calls, take photos, and read back text messages without ever physically touching the device. ...
- Cocooning From Coronavirus To Boost Ecommerce, Advertising Platforms, Local Search
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 28, 2020
Ecommerce will be the sector least affected by COVID-19, a strain of coronavirus -- at least in the near term, according to one analyst. "Medium term, we believe "cocooning" could ...
- Voice Commerce Declines In 2020: Report
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Some 33% of consumers surveyed say a lack of security features stops them from making more purchases via voice-enabled devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. ...
- Facebook Reportedly Will Offer Compensation To Users For Digital Voice Data
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 21, 2020
As smart speakers come under fire for sharing data without consent, Facebook said it will pay users for their voice recordings. The goal is to train Facebook's speech recognition system ...
- SoundHound, Wcities Team To Add Location To AI Voice
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, February 13, 2020
Wcities, publisher of city guides, is partnering with SoundHound to add location and event data to the Houndify voice artificial intelligence platform. ...
- eMarketer Predicts 83 Million Smart Speaker Users This Year
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Monday, February 10, 2020
Amazon, with its Echo line of smart speakers, will account for 70% of users, with 32% using Google-branded devices and 18% using other brands. ...
- Amazon, KFC Create 'Brand Voice' Via Alexa
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The KFC voice sports a Southern U.S. accent for Colonel Sanders. ...
- Forecast Lowered For Purchases Via Smart Speaker
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Just because smart speaker owners can make purchases using their devices doesn't mean they will. ...
- Preparing For The Future Of Voice Advertising
Search Marketing Daily, Jason White - Thursday, January 30, 2020
I predict 5G will lead to the explosion of voice search as the value of the Internet of Things and the connected home is truly realized. Here is why -- ...
- Visual Search Emerges As Next Disrupter If Marketers Educate Consumers, Study Finds
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 23, 2020
The biggest barrier to adoption is educating consumers on how they can use the technology. ...
- Privacy Concerns Hamper Smart Speaker Growth
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Two-thirds (66%) of consumers who don't have a smart speaker and do not intend to get one cite privacy as an important concern. ...
- Rothenberg Talks IAB ALM 2020, White House Visits, Gets Personal With Customer Experience
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 20, 2020
The IAB ALM 2020 Leadership Summit focuses on what Rothenberg calls The New Alphabet of Consumer Experience, ranging from emerging devices and infrastructure to technology like artificial intelligence, and voice ...
- Online Shopping By Voice Devices, Wearables On The Rise
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, January 19, 2020
A new study forecasts a 91% increase in the use of wearables and a 201% increase in voice-activated devices for online purchasing. ...
- CES: A Post-Mortem: Part Two
MediaDailyNews, Sarah Ivey - Monday, January 20, 2020
The story this year, for me, was about foundational technologies, 5G, Wifi 6, biometrics, AI and voice assistance -- and how smart combinations of existing technologies are pushing the envel ...
- Amazon: 'Common Sense' Requires Dismissal Of Alexa Privacy Suit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 10, 2020
"The Alexa service works -- and performs the helpful, valuable, and entertaining functions that plaintiffs' access and enjoy every day -- because a recording is created that converts voice into ...
- Federal AI Regulations Coming
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, at CES on Tuesday talked about a set of principles to federally regulate the development of artificial intelligence in the private sector without ...
- American Airlines, Delta Rush To Implement Technology From Google, Others
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Google released a list of top search destinations Wednesday as American Airlines and Delta Air Lines at CES announced major upgrades to the technology they will use to help travel ...
- Sonos Sues Google, Alleges Patent Infringement For Voice Tech
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
The suit claims Google knew about the patented technology that could span multiple rooms as early as 2013. Sonos is seeking a ban on Google speakers, smartphones and laptops in ...
- Optimizing For Audio Content, Podcasts
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 31, 2019
A discussion on Reddit between Google's John Mueller and others in the Reddit community provided advice on optimizing an audio based site that features podcasts and audio books. All pages need content ...
- Google Urges Judge To Throw Out Privacy Claims Over Assistant
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Google says its voice-activated Assistant "did precisely what it is supposed to -- record when it detects a hotword." ...
- Voice Assistants To Work To A Common Standard
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Siri, Google and Alexa could all start talking to one another soon. City A.M. reveals the tech giants are talking to one another to devise a common standard so apps ...
- Alexa, Get Me Good Seats For 'Phantom' Tonight: Voice Assistance Comes To Broadway
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, December 17, 2019
The ability to buy Broadway tickets through Alexa is limited to just one show as yet, the long-running "Phantom of the Opera." ...
- More Voice Assistant Privacy Coming: Juniper
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, December 10, 2019
The developments in voice assistants are expected to allow consumers and vendors to have more confidence about privacy, ...
- Amazon Alexa Voice Expanding To Other Connected Devices
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, November 28, 2019
The Amazon digital voice assistant will be added to other devices, such as light switches, thermostats and small appliances. ...
- Chipotle Giving Away Voice Assistants To Customers Named Alexa
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Sunday, November 24, 2019
That's one way to increase voice ordering. ...
- Sling TV Adds Voice Control Through Google Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 21, 2019
Sling users can for the first time voice-control programming, and cast Sling to smart devices around the home. ...
- Microsoft To Shutter Cortana App In Some Countries Outside U.S.
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 19, 2019
At the end of January 2020, the company plans to shutter the stand-alone app in Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Mexico, China, Spain, Canada, and India. ...
