Voice Assistants
Latest about Voice Assistants

BBC set to launch “Beeb” AI voice assistant
By Rene Millman published
News Assistant will be trained to recognise a range of UK accents

NatWest trials voice banking in the UK
By Nicholas Fearn published
News Customers will be able to use a Google Home to access their accounts

NHS-Alexa deal ‘data protection disaster waiting to happen'
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Health data will feed into Amazon's voice assistant but concerns mount over the fate of patient recordings

The business case for Amazon's Alexa
By Barry Collins published
In-depth Amazon's voice assistant isn't just a toy for the home, it's making serious play for the office too

How is mistake-prone Microsoft still worth so much money?
By Jon Honeyball published
Opinion Cortana looks like an irrelevant sideshow compared to Alexa and Siri

17 hidden secrets of the Amazon Echo
By ITPro published
In-depth Amazon’s voice assistant can do a lot more than just play music and tell you the weather.

Context-aware computing is here – and it's getting smarter
By Nicole Kobie published
In-depth Alexa knows when you're getting ill and researchers are listening using vibrations

The ethical implications of conversational AI
By Sandra Vogel published
In-depth With chatbots becoming part of daily life, we look at whether the right to data privacy is being impeded
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