(EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Google is expected to hit the smart home market in a big way with a new device codenamed Chirp. According to a report from Recode, the tech titan is moving in on the turf carved out by Amazon’s Echo with its own voice-activated assistant for the home. The device probably won’t see […]
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Apple, Google, and Microsoft all have software that lets you talk to your phone to perform some actions or get answers to your questions. Siri, Cortana, and Google’s voice search tools can come in handy in the car, around the house, or in other places where you may not want to use your hands to
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The good Neat, kitchen-friendly design Works well with Alexa voice commands Fun, family-friendly communication features The bad So-so audio quality Doesn’t work with all Alexa services Thanks to Invoxia’s Triby, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is no longer confined to the mega retailer’s own smart speakers. This eye-catching, $169 device brings Alexa to a small, portable
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Alexa, the digital assistant that powers the Amazon Echo, Dot and Tap, has finally gained the ability to track your Amazon orders. It’s been an odd omission considering the great many things that Alexa can already do, but it’s better late than never. As reported by ReadWrite, you can now simply query Alexa with phrases
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The Kayak travel search engine is now accessible on Amazon’s Alexa to let users search for and track flights. Siri, Cortana Are Listening: How 5 Digital Assistants Use Your Data (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Every mobile professional has been there: late, scrambling to pack and run out the door in time to
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Image via Twitter YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Thanks to Alexa, you can flirt with the notion of your next vacation without lifting so much as a finger. Amazon’s hear-all, living room speaker now has the ability to answer your Kayak queries, doling out answers to your hard-hitting travel questions. According to a press release, we
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Josh Miller/CNET In an effort to unite the smart-home market under a single networking protocol, Google/Alphabet’s Nest today launched OpenThread, an open-source implementation of the Thread protocol. The Thread Group, a nonprofit company first announced in July 2014, introduced the Thread protocol in hopes that IoT partners would work together to make the multiprotocol smart-home
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(Photo : Getty Images) A lot of people yet are unaware of the fact that Apple’s artificially intelligent voice assistant Siri was actually not developed by Apple themselves. Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence in Siri, Apple’s digital voice assistant for natural language queries on a smartphone. A lot of people yet
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By Cailey Rizzo KAYAK and Amazon are bringing flight planning to Alexa, the virtual assistant in Amazon’s smart home products. Launching Tuesday, the KAYAK integration provides a voice-activated travel service to let users ask about travel options using their voice and an Alexa-enabled device. Users can track live flights, find out what destinations are within
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Planning a stress-free vacation can be one of the most stressful tasks on your to-do list if you’re not strategic in your data collection. Luckily there are a wide-array of tools and websites that make booking, scheduling and updating your itinerary a breeze. Starting this week Alexa, the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo,
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