Voice search and
personal voice assistants like Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, Google Home, Amazon Echo and the Apple HomePod have shifted how people search.
Not exact matches
That's because metaphors
like «grasp» are difficult for Apple's
voice - controlled
personal assistant to, well, grasp.
The
voice recognised
personal assistant has now become much more
like Siri...
Editorial illustration for NPR about how children interact with
voice - activated
personal assistant devices
like Amazon Echo or Google Home.
Google Home speaker is a small - cone
like voice controlled
personal assistant that can do all kinds of cool things
like describe the weather, play music and control your smart home devices.
Google Home speaker is a small - cone
like voice controlled
personal assistant that can do all kinds of cool things
like describe the weather,...
A
voice - controlled speaker can do basic
personal -
assistant tasks
like making shopping lists, setting alarms and timers, and answering simple search queries (e.g. «What's the capital of Kansas?»
The influence of Siri, Google Now, Cortana and the
likes have gotten us pretty used to
voice commands, so it's easy to forget that not all
personal assistant bots are the same.
It looks
like Samsung's new virtual
personal assistant, believed to be named Bixby, will do a lot more than just respond to your
voice.
I fully believe that there is nothing as detrimental to the success of
voice computing as feeling
like an idiot when you ask your
personal assistant to do something out loud and it doesn't respond or gives you some non sequitur.
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.
For example, in the Chinese market, the feedback requested a
personal assistant whose
voice sounded
like she was smiling.
The idea of intelligent
personal assistants or
voice assistants like Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now seems very cool — ...
The device apparently looks
like an OnHub router, incorporating
voice search and
personal assistant features similar to Amazon's box.
The built - in
voice recognition can hear users from across the room, according to Amazon, essentially acting as a Siri -
like personal assistant crammed inside a speaker.
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.
Amazon today announced two new lower cost
voice - activated
personal assistants that work just
like the original Echo.