Microsoft with a partnership with audio and video device manufacturing giant Harman
Kardon announced voice - activated speaker featuring Cortana with an aim to compete against both Amazon's Echo and Google's Home and the latest Apple's HomePod.Now a Cortana Device Setup app for Harman Kardon's Invoke is now available on Windows Store on Windows 10.
Microsoft with a partnership with audio and video device manufacturing giant Harman
Kardon announced voice - activated speaker featuring Cortana with an aim to compete against both Amazon's Echo and Google's Home and...
Harman
Kardon announced in December that the device will be available in 2017 and include the Cortana Voice assistant.
Not exact matches
Even more audiophile - oriented speaker makers like JBL, Onkyo, Harman
Kardon, and Libratone have also
announced new products with smart assistants from either Google or Amazon.
The Redmond team has
announced a bunch of new features for their digital assistant: she got much «smarter» with the help of indie developers, moved to a variety of devices — including cars — and acquired smarthome speakers from Harman
Kardon.
Harman
Kardon just
announced the Onyx Wireless Speaker, which offers full - range sound in a compact, sculptural enclosure with built - in Bluetooth, AirPlay, DLNA, and audio AUX - in.
Harman
announced its own Alexa - enabled speaker, the Harman
Kardon Allure, which offers 360 degrees of sound and responsive lighting that moves to the rhythm of music.
Microsoft today
announced that Harman
Kardon will come out with a smart speaker that draws on Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant in 2017.
One device we know will have Cortana inside it: a Harman
Kardon smart speaker that was
announced Tuesday.
One of the reasons why the Connected Home feature might have been added now is that Microsoft may be preparing for the release of the previously
announced Harman
Kardon Invoke smart speaker, which uses Cortana as its digital assistant.
That plan was already on shaky ground: Microsoft
announced a plan to embed Cortana services within consumer hardware last December, though only Harman
Kardon has publicly signed on.
Microsoft
announced its partnership with Harman
Kardon in December 2016 and the device is expected in Q2 2017.
Microsoft has
announced it is making its Cortana voice assistant AI available to third - party device makers, with third - party developers also set to get access to the platform for integrating into their services on Cortana - powered devices.The company's approach is based on two software kits currently available for preview: A Skills Kit that allows developers to build apps that can be called up and controlled via Cortana using voice commands, and a Cortana Devices SDK, which enables third - party hardware manufacturers to bake in the voice - activated AI to new devices.Premium audio company Harman
Kardon is set to become one of the first device makers to make use of the SDK in a new wireless speaker, set to debut early next year.
JBL, part of Samsung Electronics» Harman
Kardon subsidiary, LG and Sony did not
announce pricing and release dates.
The introduction of set - up flow may suggest that team Microsoft is getting ready for Harman
Kardon and maybe other devices to be
announced soon.
We're expecting Microsoft to
announce more 3rd party hardware for its Cortana - based line up that was first introduced at Build with the Harman /
Kardon.
Harman
Kardon, one of the audio brands to fall under the Harman umbrella, has officially
announced the Invoke speaker.
Over the past few months, heavy - hitting speaker brands such as Polk, Definitive Technology, and Harman
Kardon have
announced their wireless speaker products would operate on the Play - Fi standard, and now DTS is adding three more highly - respected brands to its rapidly growing list: Paradigm, Martin Logan, and Anthem.
It's taking a long time to
announce this, though, Harmon
Kardon plans on debuting it in Fall.
Samsung subsidiary Harman
Kardon quietly
announced its Amazon Echo competitor, called Invoke Monday.
However, the lack of a mobile platform to reach consumers and the much
announced, but delayed smart speaker from Harman
Kardon has left the company without easy access to consumers in many of their everyday use cases.
Audio company Harman
Kardon, which Samsung will own when it closes the $ 8 billion Harman acquisition it
announced last month, has developed the device and will release it in 2017, according to the video.
A year later, Google introduced the Echo's first competitor, the Google Home, and in spring 2017, Microsoft
announced a partnership with Harman /
Kardon to bring Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana — present on any PC running Windows 10 — to a standalone wireless loudspeaker, the Invoke ($ 199.95 USD).
The other major feature of the Invoke is its sound quality, as the web page
announcing the speaker claims it utilizes «Harman
Kardon's audio heritage» to reveal «every beautiful detail in your music.»
And at the Build 2017 developer conference, the company gave us our first look at how Cortana works away from a computer in devices like the recently
announced Harmon
Kardon Invoke speaker and a demo car.
Back at CES, Lenovo
announced a series of Alexa - powered Smart Assistant devices, with a special Harman
Kardon edition for $ 179.99.
Harman
Kardon is simply revealing black and silver options for the Invoke, but the company has not yet
announced pricing or an exact release date.
After a leak this morning, Harman
Kardon's Cortana - powered speaker has now been officially
announced.
Harmon
Kardon is planning on shipping the Invoke this fall, although no exact release date or price has been
announced.