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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Shows Off Voice-Controlled iOS App
It looks like Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is a self proclaimed “Siri-holic” after the streaming outfit’s head man waxed lyrical about his love for Apple’s digital assistant. But that’s not all. During an...
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‘Hands-Free Control’ Takes Siri to the Next Level
The potential is startling. Once you play with Hands-Free Control in a true Siri environment on the iPhone 4S, it really hits you how much potential jailbreaking adds to Siri. Truly, the sky’s the...
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OpenSiri: Launch Apps Natively Using Siri
Didn’t we tell you? The floodgates are opening for Siri tweaks now that the iPhone 4S jailbreak is available. OpenSiri is among the Siri tweak freshman class, and it allows you to launch stock Apple...
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Will Apple kill Evi over Siri? [Updated]
It looks as if things are becoming quite crowded and heated in the “virtual assistant” space. A recent TechCrunch report says that Apple is planning to remove Evi from the App Store because it...
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Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-Voice go head to head (video)
The Verge was first out of the gate today with its exhaustive review of Samsung’s Galaxy S III handset. A section of the piece provides an interesting side-by-side comparison of two intelligent...
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Nuance launches Dragon ID: phone unlock using your larynx
Nuance, the natural voice processing engine that powers voice recognition in Apple’s Siri digital assistant, recently announced the Drive! platform, basically the Siri for cars. Today, the company...
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Google unveils Android 4.1, complete with Siri competitor and more
Apple kicked off this month with its WWDC keynote, unveiling the next version of its mobile operating system: iOS 6. Then Microsoft quickly followed with its Windows Phone 8 announcement. And now it’s...
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Future Motorola phones will recognize who is in a room based on their voices
Upcoming smartphones from Motorola Mobility, now a Google-owned entity, will be able to determine who is in a room by employing some pretty advanced voice recognition techniques. Under Google’s...
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CEO confirms Siri uses Nuance voice recognition tech
In the months leading up to 2011’s WWDC event, there were numerous reports that Apple would announce a major partnership with voice recognition giant Nuance. Obviously, the gossip never materialized,...
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Facebook acquires speech recognition firm Mobile Technologies
Facebook has announced this afternoon that it has acquired Mobile Technologies, a private company that develops speech recognition and machine translation technology. The move reiterates the social...
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GoogolPlex will ‘unleash the power of Siri’ with Nest, Philips Hue, Spotify...
Siri within iOS 7 can be limited sometimes, thanks to Apple’s “walled garden”, but a new tool called GoogolPlex wants to change that by opening the voice assistant to new commands. Self described as...
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How to enable Enhanced Dictation in OS X for streaming speech-to-text with...
OS X includes a nifty Dictation feature which allows you to control your Mac and apps with your voice. You can use “speakable items”, basically a set of spoken commands, to open apps, choose menu...
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How Apple’s advanced self-learning technologies could make Siri a lot smarter
The assistant wars are in full swing, with Google Assistant and Viv entering the fray and existing players such as Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Hound and Google’s Now all stepping up fight for...
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Turn iMessage, WhatsApp, and Line voice messages into text with Textify
Sending your friends voice recordings on messenger platforms such as iMessage, WhatsApp or Threema is surely not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s hard to overlook its rising popularity in certain...
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Amazon Alexa can now recognize different voices
Amazon yesterday released an update which lets its digital assistant Alexa tell different voices apart, a feature that will appeal to crowded households with multiple Echo speakers.... Read the rest...
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How to create an Alexa Voice Profile on Amazon Echo speaker
You can make your Amazon Echo speaker experience more personalized. Set up an Alexa Voice Profile and your voice will be recognized every time you speak.
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Bloomberg: thousands of Amazon employees are listening to Echo voice recordings
These folks are tasked with reviewing, transcribing and annotating audio recordings, which helps train Alexa's machine learning model.
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HomePod mini will soon recognize multiple voices everywhere the smart speaker...
HomePod mini's voice recognition and support for multiple users is coming to all markets where the Siri-powered smart speaker is currently available.
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HomePod software 15.3 extends Siri multiuser support to additional countries
Updating your Apple wireless speaker to the most recent software version 15.3 will let you set up HomePod multiuser with Siri voice recognition in additional countries and languages.
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iOS 15.4 brings HomePod voice recognition in Dutch but Apple hasn’t launched...
iOS 15.4 adds Dutch as a new Siri language option for HomePod voice recognition in the Netherlands, allowing multiple people to request personal information from Siri without invading the privacy of...
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