Among Microsoft announcements this week is a number of new features coming to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint that will use AI and machine learning technologies to manage and collaborate on content stored in those services. Starting “later this year,” Microsoft will be adding automated transcription to video and audio files stored in OneDrive...

Hello there, Happy Sunday! I hope you are having a nice, relaxing day. Earlier this week the Alexa team announced the availability of Contact and Motion Sensor APIs and Integration into Alexa. Why I think this is important? For the cases that are not being espclifically advertised for the feature: like physical impaired people improved...

During the 2018 IFV conference in Berlin last week, Amazon announced that Alexa has 50 000 skills worldwide, 20 000 devices and it’s used by 3500 brands. Big numbers, what does it tell us, though? Precisely last week, but before the announcement, I did an episode on voice space fragmentation. The main highlight relevant to...

Synthesized media is a category surging with the latest development of synthetic voices and speech to text technology. It’s not new, but is emerging with the development of Machine learning algorithms. Synthesized media refers to information types synthesized by the computers (e.g. Text, graphics and computer animation). They must be computer-controlled. Synthesized media today: We...

I was watching some videos of the talks at Voice Summit I couldn’t attend and Noelle’s talk gave an idea for an app. Then I started researching cognitive services, what are the prices what one give me that the other doesn’t. What trade-offs I’m willing to accept. I’m telling you, it’s the real FOMO. What...