After years of playing catch up with Apple and Google, Microsoft wants to overtake them through its Cortana VA. Two features make it stand out: openness to all applinces, and translation into several languages.
Siri and Alexa are just the beginning. With voice-first technology projected to overtake the traditional touchscreen experience, brands must find ingenious ways to promote themselves 'verbally', or lose the next generation of customers.
A mother from Australia thanked Apple’s Siri on her iPhone for saving her baby’s life. Using the voice activation services, she managed to reach the emergency services while focused on reviving her baby.
Apple seems to be working on their own competitor to the Amazon's Echo to give their consumers a Siri-powered speaker for the home, according to a report from today. To only add more to it, Apple is also reportedly interested in opening Siri up to third-party apps so developers can finally tap into the voice assistant.
Everyone has a digital assistant these days. Microsoft has baked Cortana into the heart of all its software and Google has just announced a major revamp to what it now calls Google assistant. Apple, on the other hand, has seen its digital assistant Siri fall behind the competition in recent years, but the company is now set to make the biggest overhaul to the feature yet by bringing it to the desktop.
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.
Siri has been updated to more appropriately and consistently respond to statements involving sexual assault and abuse, Apple have reported. There was a report about how all voice assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google now responded in inconsistently and incompletely to phrases relating to abuse or sexual assault.
Your smartphones will not be a reliable source of help in crisis situations, says study.
Do you think you can rely on S Voice for emotional help? Will Cortana counsel you if you are feeling suicidal? The answer is a resounding "no" which is upsetting but true.
Details about the new exterior design and physical appearance of Apple's new iPhone 6s have begun to leak out ahead of the company's unveiling of a slew of new products Wednesday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.
Apple has sent invites to the event with suggestions to ask Siri for hints.
Apple's upcoming iOS 9 will be equipped with a Wi-Fi Assist, which will keep track of Wi-Fi signal levels when you are using the wireless connection on your phone and if it detects a low signal, it will switch to mobile data automatically. The new feature is designed to enable users to connect to the internet with minimal disruption, Daily Mail reported.
Ask Siri an unsolvable question and she/he will give you a cheeky response.
Apple might be planning to launch a new Apple TV, equipped with its personal digital assistant, Siri, this summer, according to reports.
Microsoft could make Cortana - its virtual voice assistant - available for Android and iOS as a standalone app, according to a report by Reuters.
