Unlike Jibo,
other voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have a bit more to say.
Gary Davis, Chief Consumer Security Evangelist at McAfee, told PCMag that if Alexa proves popular with McAfee's customers, the company will also develop support for
other voice assistants like Google Assistant or Apple's Siri.
Not exact matches
Regardless of who's ahead, the rivalry has created a steeper hill for
other companies
like Apple and Samsung to climb as they try to build up their own
voice assistants.
Marketing experts believe that bots are here to stay but there are
others who believe that AI devices
like voice assistants are the future, and will make bots obsolete very soon.
Although Amazon is primarily an online merchant, they have been working on more than just selling goods and services from
other companies for a while, offering a series of their own different products
like the Kindle e-readers and Android - powered tablets, a smartphone, the Fire TV products, and now the family of Echo speakers which are all powered by the Alexa
voice assistant software.
Echo Dot, just
like any
other device that can be controlled by Alexa
voice assistant (naming only Amazon Fire HD 10 entertainment tablet), can play music, set alarms, control smart home devices, provide weather information, and — what's most important — read Audible audiobooks.
Other than that, it's actually a pretty simple device, and it's clearly focused on playing music rather than being the end - all
voice assistant like the Amazon Echo or Google Home.
While Roku's
voice assistant may offer some basic
voice Q&A features,
like news and weather, its main function will be to offer
voice control for your Roku TV, Roku player, and
other Roku audio devices built by the company's partners.
The service essentially works in the same way as
other AI solutions
like Google
Assistant or Amazon Alexa in that it listens to your
voice, interprets the information and returns the resulting action.
Now you can also interact with your August Smart Lock and August Smart Lock Pro using your
voice via the Google
Assistant on eligible Android smartphones, the Google
Assistant app on iOS, speakers
like Google Home, wearables, TVs and
other devices supporting the Google
Assistant *.
An improved YouTube app is on the way, bringing Android TV's version into parity with
other streaming devices
like Roku, and Google plans to bring its powerful
Assistant voice controls to the platform in the coming months.
In my work covering
assistants like Siri and Cortana and the third - party
voice apps
like Alexa skills being built for
assistants, the innovators and dreamers I speak with mention the fictional
assistant in Her more than any
other milestone or archetype.
The Liberty + still has
other features as well,
like the «smart» capabilities that make it fully compatible with
voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and the Google
Assistant.
VB: This sounds a little bit
like ordering through Amazon Alexa or
other voice — activated
assistants.
Past studies have said it's more knowledgeable than peers
like Siri or Amazon's Alexa, and we've found it to compare favorably to the
other major players — though every
voice assistant continues to have issues with reliability and interoperability from time to time.
Like most
other virtual
assistants, Bixby talks back — but some folks might not want to listen to Bixby's default
voice «Stephanie».
This August smart lock Homekit enabled, has
voice control features let you regulate the activities using HomeKit or one of the
other popular
voice services
like Google
Assistant.
And that's where Google Home comes to light, which just
like the Amazon Echo, is aiming to go beyond being just a smart
voice assistant services by commanding your audio, delivering relevant answers to queries, learn more about you, and integrate seamlessly with
other smart connected devices in the home.
I know software updates are an entirely different ballgame compared to building an entire personal
voice assistant, but it seems
like Samsung is so slow at software development that it just can't compete with how quickly
other OEMs can deliver new updated software.
Facebook may be trailing Amazon, Google and the
others today in some aspects of
voice assistant technology, but acquisitions
like Ozlo can help it catch up quickly.
Most of these features are largely a consequence of having more internet - connected features in Windows,
like live tiles that need to download information regularly, and the Cortana
voice assistant that provides online searches and
other information.
The act of not only dedicating a button to it but also making it hard to use the button for
other purposes makes it look
like a
voice assistant is
like the most important and useful feature a phone can offer, while in fact they're simply not at all.
Siri was the first
voice assistant to reach a wide audience and
others,
like Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana soon followed.
That makes expanding into
other markets particularly challenging, and it's yet another reason why most successful
voice assistants will be part of broader ecosystems coming from big companies
like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple.
His latest venture, Omega for Enterprise, aims to take on the
likes of Apple, Google, Samsung, Baidu, Amazon, and every
other reasonably sized tech company working on
voice assistants.
Sonos has announced a smart version of its Play: 1 speaker at an event in New York on 4 October, featuring integrated Alexa
voice control but with
other assistants,
like Google and Cortana, also in the pipeline to join at a later date.
Just
like other products from the Echo range, the Echo Show will have artificial — intelligence based
voice command support from the company's Alexa
voice assistant.
Just
like that, a world - famous celebrity chef appears — in Full HD video along with a 10 - watt full - range speaker — to help guide Dad through the cooking step by step.1 With the Google
Assistant, the Lenovo Smart Display is a singular command hub for your connected smart home devices, including those through Nest ® and
other manufacturers from lighting to heating and more — all with just your
voice or touch.
The company also says that employees at its Toronto office will contribute to «the
voice - controlled intelligent personal
assistant Alexa,» as well as
other platforms
like Amazon Web Services.
With smart speakers
like Amazon's Echo using a 7 - microphone array to hear better for
voice controls using its Alexa
assistant,
other companies are likely to follow.
Assistant can understand
voice or typed queries just
like it does on any
other device, and if you type your request Google will give you an answer without blasting it through the speakers.
Amazon's Alexa seems to have made a breakthough because, unlike
voice assistants like Siri or Google
Assistant, it's not trying to cannibalise
other ways of communicating with devices, but actually doing new stuff.
Sonos is starting with Amazon's Alexa
voice assistant for music
voice control which works just
like other Echo devices, although the company says it is agnostic about
voice assistants and wants to work with all options.
It uses
voice prompts to pair to
other devices via Bluetooth, and features a multi-purpose button that allows you to make and take calls as well as access VPAs
like Siri and Google
Assistant.
As a smart home
assistant, the HomePod works with Siri and Apple HomeKit, and
like other smart speakers, will be able to control things
like light bulbs and door locks with
voice command.
One of the main problems with Cortana, as well as apps
like Hound and
other voice assistants, is that they can't really take advantage of the same OS - level integration that's found with Google's own
voice offerings.
Like the company's
other speakers, the Wave will be powered by Line's
voice - activated digital
assistant Clova.
Google's Text - to - speech Engine already lets users select what
voice they want to hear, while
other smart
assistants like Siri on iOS allows users to pick a male or female
voice.
Some of us
like it,
others think it needs more work, but the general conclusion is that Bixby
Voice isn't bad for a first attempt at a
voice assistant.