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Shopping via smart speakers is not taking off, report suggests
U.S. consumers aren’t adopting voice-based shopping as quickly as expected, according to a new report today from eMarketer. While consumers…
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Schneider Electric Launches Smart Home Solution ‘Easy Homes’ in India
19 December 2019: Schneider Electric has launched of Easy Homes – one of their innovations in the Smart Home space.…
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Apple and Spotify’s podcasts come to Echo devices in the US
Amazon Alexa can now play podcasts from Apple, making Amazon’s line of Echo devices the first third-party clients to support…
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SpaceX and Rocket Lab launch rockets and X-Wings take flight
This week saw a ton of activity in the space industry, with multiple launches, key preparations for commercial crew missions,…
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Spotify’s free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers
Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes as Spotify says its…
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Alexa developers can now personalize their skills by recognizing the user’s voice
Amazon Alexa is already capable of identifying different voices to give personalized responses to different users in the household, thanks…
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Amazon makes it easier for smart home devices to alert customers to low supply levels
Alongside all the new Alexa-powered consumer devices Amazon introduced yesterday, the company also unveiled a new set of tools for…
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Amazon launches multilingual mode for using Alexa in multiple languages at once
Amazon is launching multilingual mode for its Alexa-supporting devices, the company announced today at its Devices event in Seattle. The…
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Amazon adds Hindi to the Alexa Skills Kit
Users of Amazon’s voice assistant will soon be able to talk to Alexa in Hindi. Amazon announced today that it…
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Amazon’s AI rewrites voice commands in natural language to reduce false positives
“Reference resolution” is a considerable challenge in natural language processing — in the context of AI assistants like Alexa, it…
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