Tag: Assistants
Google Assistant Gains Momentum in Smart Home Race
Google Assistant, the artificial intelligence software built into Android handsets and the Google Home smart speaker system, now can control more than 5,000 smart devices, Google announced Thursday. That’s up from just 1,500 products in January and the…
Read More »Amazon’s Echo for Kids and Retro Voice Assistants
Take a look at the Amazon Echo for kids, an updated Oculus, a retro-styled smart speaker, and Snapchat’s latest spectacles. Amazon is trying to rope in younger members of the family to use its Alexa voice assistant with…
Read More »Google Assistant Included In Nvidia’s Shield TV
Nvidia’s Shield TV now includes Google Assistant as part of its Shield Experience Upgrade 6.0 update, which is now available for download. The update also lets the Shield device work as a SmartThings Hub when paired with a…
Read More »Digital Assistants Towards Real Human Conversation
Talking to Alexa is too often a one-sided affair. Certainly, the primary purpose of a digital assistant is to listen, but its responses tend to favor cold efficiency. If a human spoke to you the same way, you’d…
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