The Next Digital Assistant Is Apple Flavored
Amazon Alexa dominated the digital assistant market until Google released Google Assistant. Both assistants are accessible through smart devices, but more readily through smart speakers that react to...
View ArticlePrivacy Enabled on Digital Assistants
One thing that Amazon, Google, and other digital assistant manufacturers glaze over are how enabling vocal commands on smart speakers potentially violates a user’s privacy. These include both the...
View ArticleWill the Smartest Virtual Assistant Please Stand Up?
The devices are driving sales. However AI-powered virtual assistants are far from perfect. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Cortana are good for basic questions on weather, radio stations, and...
View ArticleThe Voice of Assistance Is Called Snips
Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa are the most well known digital assistants, but there are other companies that want to get the same recognition. Snips is a brand new (relatively)...
View ArticleAlexa Is Deaf to Vocal Skill Search
Here is a surprising fact: Amazon does not have a vocal search for Alexa skills. Amazon prides itself on being on being a top technology developer and retailer, but it fails to allow Alexa users to...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa Enables Shopping Without Computer, Phone, or TV
Mail order catalogs, home shopping networks, and online shopping allowed consumers to buy products from the comfort of their own home. Each of them had their heyday, but now they need to share the...
View ArticleGoogle Home Still Knows More
Amazon has infiltrated our lives as our main shopping destination. Amazon is also trying to become our best friend, information source, and digital assistant via Alexa. Alexa provides a wealth of...
View ArticleTake a Hint Amazon, Bing Is Not That Great
It recently hit the new stands that Google Home was six times more likely than Amazon Alexa to answer questions. The Inquirer shares more about this development in the article, “Google Hoe Is Six...
View ArticleAlexa Gets a Physical Body
Alexa did not really get physical robot body, instead, Bionik Laboratories developed an Alexa skill to control their AKRE lower-body exoskeleton. The news comes from iReviews’s article, “Amazon’s...
View ArticleAlexa Can Name the Tune If You Sing a Bar
A brief write-up at MakeUseOf points out a nifty Alexa capability—“How to Search for Songs by Lyrics on Amazon Echo.” Writer Nancy Messieh writes: One of the Echo’s native features (recently pointed...
View ArticleAlexa AI Could Drastically Change Your Shopping Experience
Amazon’s Alexa, a wi-fi enabled, voice-activated speaker, has become less of a novelty and more of a way of life for millions of owners. With that in mind, the company is aiming to utilize this...
View ArticleAmazon Factoid: Home Speaker Department
Short honk: I read “What Cracking Open a Sonos One Tells Us aboiut the Sonos IPO.” In the write up was an interesting to me item of information. Here is what I noted: Even though both [Sonos and Echo...
View ArticleAmazon: Wheel Re-Invention
Some languages have bound phrases; that is, two words which go together. Examples include “White House”, a presidential dwelling, and “ticket counter”, a place to talk with an uninterested airline...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa Is Sensitive
The gimmick behind digital assistants is with a simple vocal command, using a smart speaker like Amazon Echo, users have access to knowledge and can complete small tasks. Amazon is either very clever...
View ArticleAmazon Top Dog Video: A Minor Omission
If you are an Amazon watcher, you will enjoy the production values and some of the examples in the video “How Amazon Became the Top Dog in Artificial Intelligence: Tech Video.” On the plus side, the...
View ArticleAmazon: A Decision Imposed and A Practice Challenged
Alexa.com, purportedly named for legendary bastion of knowledge the Library at Alexandria, has been a go-to tool for traffic-based web rankings, APIs, and other website information for 25 years. Now,...
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Amazon Alexa Factoids: A Look Behind the Storefront Curtains
This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Hey, Amazon admirers, I noted some interesting (allegedly accurate factoids) in “Amazon Alexa to Lose $10 Billion This Year.” No,...
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