Voice Assistants
Discover expert analysis on voice assistants with news, features and insights from the team at IT Pro.
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How to put Alexa on Raspberry Pi
Tutorials Here's how you can build a home-brew Amazon Echo
By Mark Mayne Published
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Lancashire Police and Amazon's Alexa team up to fight crime
News A policing app will send the latest news and pictures of criminals to Amazon Alexa-enabled devices
By Clare Hopping Published
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Facebook bins M, its AI-powered virtual assistant
News The service will end on 19 January, although some features will continue through M Suggestions
By Nicholas Fearn Published
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AWS brings Amazon Alexa voice commands to the office
News Voice will be the primary way of interacting with IT systems, predicts CTO Werner Vogels
By Joe Curtis Published
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Cisco brings AI to conferencing with Spark Assistant
News Digital assistant will use voice commands to perform common tasks in meetings
By Adam Shepherd Published
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Intel and Amazon create Speech Enabling Developer KIt
News The developer kit will make it easier for third party developers to integrate Alexa Voice Service into products
By Hannah Simms Published
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The rise of voice search in 2017
In-depth Voice search has been revealed as one of Gartner’s top tech trends of 2017, but what is it and why will it become so big?
By ITPro Published
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Virtual Personal Assistants will become the norm by 2019
News Smartphone users will also rely on their voice and gestures to control their device
By Clare Hopping Published
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Tech giants form ‘ethical AI’ supergroup
News The organisation includes Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, but Elon Musk and Apple are both absent
By Adam Shepherd Published
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Siri creators prepare to launch new voice assistant, Viv
News Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer want to revolutionise how we interact with online services
By Caroline Preece Published
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Build 2016: Why Microsoft predicts a world of talking bots
Analysis Satya Nadella’s big vision for Microsoft is around intelligent conversations with machines
By Mary Branscombe Published
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Nuance Dragon Professional Individual
Analysis Nuance’s new take on speech recognition promises still further customisation and integration with Dragon Anywhere, in 2016
By Simon Williams Published
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