Dive Brief: Starbucks is enabling limited availability of voice-driven ordering and payment through the My Starbucks Barista artificial intelligence feature on its iOS mobile application, and also has launched a Starbucks Reorder Skill via Amazon’s Alexa marketplace that allows users to order Starbucks items by voice through their Alexa digital assistant-enabled devices. The mobile effort is …

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Starbucks previously introduced its mobile app where you can pre-order drinks and just pick them up at the nearest branch stated by the app. But if using your fingers to place your coffee order is a bit too much for you, the coffeeshop is now letting you order through a voice chat in the My …

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Reuters/Jacky Naegelen Starbucks is putting its own spin on the virtual assistant. The popular coffee franchise has rolled out a Siri-like assistant app for mobile that lets you skip baristas and place orders by chatting or speaking directly to your phone. The feature essentially works as an extension of the Mobile and Pay functionality Starbucks …

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