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Amazon and Microsoft just released an update for their voice assistants. Now you can speak with Alexa on a Windows 10 PC, you just need to say "Cortana, open Alexa"
This is opening a whole new market for Alexa. Looking forward what is going to be next🤓
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/15/alexa-cortana-public-preview/
Amazon and Microsoft just released an update for their voice assistants. Now you can speak with Alexa on a Windows 10 PC, you just need to say "Cortana, open Alexa"
This is opening a whole new market for Alexa. Looking forward what is going to be next🤓
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/15/alexa-cortana-public-preview/
Engadget
The Alexa-Cortana crossover is now available to the public
Amazon and Microsoft are rolling out the Alexa-Cortana experience as a public preview.
Have you ever wondered how to pick a great skill invocation name?
Here you go 🙂
https://medium.com/storyline-blog/how-to-pick-a-skill-invocation-name-c12037b29ebb
Here you go 🙂
https://medium.com/storyline-blog/how-to-pick-a-skill-invocation-name-c12037b29ebb
Medium
How to Pick a Skill Invocation Name
This post was originally published by me at the Alexa blog. Yes, I write for the Alexa Blog now.
Everyone makes mistakes, even big companies.
Today YC by mistake sent acceptances to everyone who applied to their Startup School, even if they weren't selected for the program.
To cover this fault, they opened the program for everyone who applied.
What lesson should we learn? Be careful when you make a broadcast to your users, the other way it can be a pretty expensive mistake!
Today YC by mistake sent acceptances to everyone who applied to their Startup School, even if they weren't selected for the program.
To cover this fault, they opened the program for everyone who applied.
What lesson should we learn? Be careful when you make a broadcast to your users, the other way it can be a pretty expensive mistake!
Hot news🔥🔥🔥
Slack just raised $427 million in their new round and now it worth more than 7 billion!
https://www.producthunt.com/news/315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h?utm_source=browser_notification&utm_medium=browser_notification&utm_campaign=315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h
Slack just raised $427 million in their new round and now it worth more than 7 billion!
https://www.producthunt.com/news/315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h?utm_source=browser_notification&utm_medium=browser_notification&utm_campaign=315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h
Today we decided to make a small digest of what happened for the last two days.
Facebook is on fire! FB decided to show the world a piece of information regarding its own speech recognition feature "Aloha" for Facebook and Messenger apps: https://voicebot.ai/2018/08/21/first-sighting-of-the-facebook-aloha-voice-assistant-appears-in-messenger-along-with-voice-messaging-in-instagram/
Maybe new Alexa competitor? What do you think?
Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’😇 Just say "Hey Google, tell me something good" to receive your daily dose of stories about people who are solving real-life problems: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/hey-google-tell-me-something-good/
And one more news related to Facebook:
Facebook’s advertising platform permits discrimination by removing 5,000 options that can be used to exclude certain religious and ethnic minority groups: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/facebook-is-removing-over-5000-ad-targeting-options-to-prevent-discriminatory-ads/
Facebook is on fire! FB decided to show the world a piece of information regarding its own speech recognition feature "Aloha" for Facebook and Messenger apps: https://voicebot.ai/2018/08/21/first-sighting-of-the-facebook-aloha-voice-assistant-appears-in-messenger-along-with-voice-messaging-in-instagram/
Maybe new Alexa competitor? What do you think?
Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’😇 Just say "Hey Google, tell me something good" to receive your daily dose of stories about people who are solving real-life problems: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/hey-google-tell-me-something-good/
And one more news related to Facebook:
Facebook’s advertising platform permits discrimination by removing 5,000 options that can be used to exclude certain religious and ethnic minority groups: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/facebook-is-removing-over-5000-ad-targeting-options-to-prevent-discriminatory-ads/
Voicebot.ai
First Sighting of the Facebook Aloha Voice Assistant Appears in Messenger Along with Voice Messaging in Instagram
Jane Manchun Wong, a developer with a penchant for reverse engineering and finding hidden features in applications before official release,..
A few weeks ago, our friend Julian from CognitionX shared his research in chatbots and voice bots market.
Highly recommend to read it🤓
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kfo-w7BlE0a0AYAZ7Lm_qNJv_UNkRLzc/view
Highly recommend to read it🤓
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kfo-w7BlE0a0AYAZ7Lm_qNJv_UNkRLzc/view
Google Docs
Chatbots_and_Voicebots-v111.pdf
Have you seen this cute puppy?
I'm sure, pretty soon this nice animals like Aibo will receive lots of features characteristic to voice assistants and will become very popular within the next 5 years.
https://tcrn.ch/2Lo8IUD
I'm sure, pretty soon this nice animals like Aibo will receive lots of features characteristic to voice assistants and will become very popular within the next 5 years.
https://tcrn.ch/2Lo8IUD
TechCrunch
Sony’s adorable new Aibo comes to the US
Packed with charm, AI and cloud technology, Sony’s rebooted robot dog doesn’t come cheap. on the Gadgetshow
Would you buy Google Assistant for $2000? Or maybe Alexa for $400?
Here are two articles about interesting collaboration Amazon and Google with producers of musical equipment
Google
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/bang-olufsens-pricey-beosound-line-gets-google-assistant/
Amazon
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/28/17790932/bose-home-speaker-500-soundbar-700-announced-pricing-features
Here are two articles about interesting collaboration Amazon and Google with producers of musical equipment
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/bang-olufsens-pricey-beosound-line-gets-google-assistant/
Amazon
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/28/17790932/bose-home-speaker-500-soundbar-700-announced-pricing-features
TechCrunch
Bang & Olufsen’s pricey BeoSound line gets Google Assistant
Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are no longer solely the domain of super cheap smart speakers. Google, in particular, has been courting third-party hardware makers pretty aggressively in an attempt to put the consumer AI on as wide a range of products as…
Samsung is opening up Bixby to third-party developers this November
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/samsung-bixby-software-developers-kit-sdk.html
btw, a month ago Samsung announced their first home speaker powered by Bixby.
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/08/09/samsung-debuts-its-funky-galaxy-home-bixby-powered-speaker/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/samsung-bixby-software-developers-kit-sdk.html
btw, a month ago Samsung announced their first home speaker powered by Bixby.
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/08/09/samsung-debuts-its-funky-galaxy-home-bixby-powered-speaker/
CNBC
Samsung to challenge Amazon's Alexa by letting developers make apps for its Bixby voice assistant
Samsung will allow third-party developers to build apps for Bixby later this year, the CEO of the technology giant's mobile division told CNBC, in a bid to boost the capability of its voice assistant.
Alexa is going to become a Kinect replacement for Xbox One.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17826718/microsoft-xbox-one-alexa-features-support-voice-control
We saw the news about voice interface in VR games before, but consoles like Xbox are brand new field for voice.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17826718/microsoft-xbox-one-alexa-features-support-voice-control
We saw the news about voice interface in VR games before, but consoles like Xbox are brand new field for voice.
The Verge
Microsoft brings Alexa support to Xbox One for Kinect-like voice controls
Available to testers today
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Just remembered Skyrim promo video for E3.
Maybe it wasn't a joke at all?
Maybe it wasn't a joke at all?
This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium
https://anatomyof.ai/
https://anatomyof.ai/
Anatomy of an AI System
Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)
Google Home Mini became the best-selling smart speaker👑
Google sold 2.3 million Home mini devices in Q2 2018, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. Amazon sold 2.2 Echo dots for the same period of time.
Last year the situation was completely different!
More stats in the article below
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/google-home-mini-was-the-best-selling-smart-speaker-in-q2/
Google sold 2.3 million Home mini devices in Q2 2018, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. Amazon sold 2.2 Echo dots for the same period of time.
Last year the situation was completely different!
More stats in the article below
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/google-home-mini-was-the-best-selling-smart-speaker-in-q2/
TechCrunch
Google Home Mini was the best-selling smart speaker in Q2
Amazon’s Echo Dot may have been a bestseller on Prime Day, but Google’s Home Mini device is now the top-selling smart speaker worldwide, according to a new report out this morning from Strategy Analytics. The analyst firm says Google’s small speaker accounted…
Yesterday Salesforce announced Einstein Voice. The main goal of this extension is to translate voice to text and log that information into Salesforce. This will save a huge amount of time when you need to manually fill the form.
In addition to the Voice Assistant, Salesforce announced that customers can build their own voice bots on the Einstein Bot Platform. Einstein Voice Bots will be in open pilot in June 2019.
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-einstein-voice-ai-assistant-2018-9
In addition to the Voice Assistant, Salesforce announced that customers can build their own voice bots on the Einstein Bot Platform. Einstein Voice Bots will be in open pilot in June 2019.
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-einstein-voice-ai-assistant-2018-9
Business Insider
Salesforce's newest AI product Einstein Voice is like Amazon's Alexa for the workforce
Salesforce's Einstein Voice will work a lot like Siri or Alexa, only the data gathered from conversations won't get shared with the wider network.
Love this news😇😇
Small startup from London made an AI-powered chatbot and raised $10M series A.
The bot named Cleo and his goal is to replace your banking app. Just four months after the launch Cleo claiming more than 600,000 active users in the U.K., U.S. and Canada in total + it is adding 30,000 new signups each week.
Here is the bot: http://m.me/1027621033925129
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/cleo-meet-balderton/
Small startup from London made an AI-powered chatbot and raised $10M series A.
The bot named Cleo and his goal is to replace your banking app. Just four months after the launch Cleo claiming more than 600,000 active users in the U.K., U.S. and Canada in total + it is adding 30,000 new signups each week.
Here is the bot: http://m.me/1027621033925129
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/cleo-meet-balderton/
TechCrunch
Cleo, the ‘digital assistant’ that replaces your banking apps, picks up $10M Series A led by Balderton
When Cleo, the London-based “digital assistant” that wants to replace your banking apps, quietly entered the U.S., the company couldn’t have expected to be an instant hit. Many better-funded British startups have failed to “break America.” However, just four…
This week Facebook will announce their first smart speaker.
It will be powered by ALEXA👑🔥
https://voicebot.ai/2018/09/24/facebook-portal-smart-display-to-be-announced-this-week-will-have-alexa-onboard/
It will be powered by ALEXA👑🔥
https://voicebot.ai/2018/09/24/facebook-portal-smart-display-to-be-announced-this-week-will-have-alexa-onboard/
Voicebot
Facebook Portal Smart Display to be Announced this Week, Will Have Alexa Onboard
Chedder is reporting that the Facebook Portal smart display will be announced later this week and will have Amazon Alexa..
We found a 💎
Deakin University develops digital assistant which can answer 6 000 questions! They working on it since 2014 and the aim is to automate 20 000 questions!
Study case: http://www.umsl.edu/~lacitym/LSEOUWP1704.pdf
Assistant overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRPuU53E74
Deakin University develops digital assistant which can answer 6 000 questions! They working on it since 2014 and the aim is to automate 20 000 questions!
Study case: http://www.umsl.edu/~lacitym/LSEOUWP1704.pdf
Assistant overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsRPuU53E74
YouTube
Deakin Genie
Deakin University's Smart Personalised Digital Assistant
📢Berlin is going to host the biggest conference about bots next month, called Chatbot Summit.
We decided to summarize 5 reasons why you should take part in it:
1. There is going to be the biggest concentration of people from the sphere.
2. Lots of useful insights and discussions about trends in 2019. Knowledge = money!
3. You can personally meet the leaders of such companies as Smooch, Chatbase, Twilio, Botsociety and many others.
4. Sharing knowledge with people from your sphere, drinking tasty German beer! What can be better than this? 🍻☺️
5. Meet the BotCube team! Yes, we're also going to Berlin and we will be glad to see you there too 😉
You can find more information on the conference website https://www.chatbotsummit.com/
Use the promo code "Botcube15" to get a 15% discount on tickets.
We decided to summarize 5 reasons why you should take part in it:
1. There is going to be the biggest concentration of people from the sphere.
2. Lots of useful insights and discussions about trends in 2019. Knowledge = money!
3. You can personally meet the leaders of such companies as Smooch, Chatbase, Twilio, Botsociety and many others.
4. Sharing knowledge with people from your sphere, drinking tasty German beer! What can be better than this? 🍻☺️
5. Meet the BotCube team! Yes, we're also going to Berlin and we will be glad to see you there too 😉
You can find more information on the conference website https://www.chatbotsummit.com/
Use the promo code "Botcube15" to get a 15% discount on tickets.