The Amazon Echo comes to the classroom. Young developers who want to add skills to the Amazon Echo will now be able to take a voice-enabled coding course. The New York Code + Design Academy has joined forces with the Amazon Alexa team to offer students an eight-week apprenticeship in building voice-enabled apps—known as skills—for …
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Despite some hopeful announcements, Apple HomeKit continues to limp along. And many have turned to Amazon as the voice-controlled switchboard of their smart homes. Indeed, after originally unloading two Echoes as a novelty, I’m back on board with one Echo and an Amazon Dot — happily barking commands at Alexa. Amazon’s platform is far more inclusive, interoperating with just about anything, sometimes …
Jun 16, 2016 08:16 AM EDT By Alma Christian, UniversityHerald Reporter NEW YORK, NY – MAY 10: Vice President of Echo, Alexa, and Appstore at Amazon.com Mike George speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on May 10, 2016 in New York City.(Photo : Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch) For humans, …
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At Apple’s annual developers conference, Craig Federighi, its senior vice president of software engineering, said financial services firms Number26, Square Cash and AliPay would allow customers to interact with Siri. IMAGE: Bloomberg News Siri, will banks be ready to use you on launch day? Come this fall, Apple will begin to allow third-party apps to …
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We’ve long-lamented over the glacial pace of Apple’s HomeKit smart home platform when it comes to adopting new partners, but that might be changing soon. At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the tech giant finally committed to offering a direct portal to HomeKit via a dedicated app in iOS 10. It also announced …
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Why bother? With Siri on iOS, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, you already have a voice assistant any time you need one. When Amazon first introduced the Echo—its cylindrical, AI-enhanced digital assistant/speaker—reaction was mixed. Who would actually want that? A lot of people, it turns out. Amazon’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google …
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) hopes to tweak its digital assistant, Alexa, to better help it sense users’ moods by picking up on the tone of voice. After launching its first-ever Bluetooth speaker, Amazon Echo, in 2014, Amazon has been eager to secure Alexa’s position in markets because many rival companies have also launched their own versions …
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ENLARGE At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote in San Francisco Monday, Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, announced that Siri would be opened to third-party developers. Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler The Wall Street Journal CANCEL Biography @geoffreyfowler geoffreyfowler Google+ [email protected] June 14, 2016 8:00 a.m. ET 12 …
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Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant on Apple hand-held devices like the iPhone and iPad will soon be able to order pizza for you, or check your bank balance or call a cab for you, and help you in other ways Siri could not until now. On Monday Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …