Voice activated smart glasses available exclusively in stores
A showcase for smart glasses opened yesterday, marking November 12 as the day (per the company) that the first world’s smart glasses store opened. North is the Canadian company who develops futuristic HCI products. The company has raised over 135 million from investors, including the Amazon Alexa fund. Focals is the smart glasses the company...
How receptive are smart speaker owners to advertising?
Survata’s September survey of 2,000 smart speaker owners in the US came with one surprising finding: Apple HomePod owners are more likely to be receptive to audio ads than anyone else. According to the Survata data, as reported by BusinessInsider: 35% of HomePod owners would be interested in hearing about sponsored products or services on...
More on Bixby and SDC 2018
As they say, sometimes is better to wait to report on some news. I feel the episode of Bixby on Wednesday could’ve wait until yesterday, when I was going to the Samsung Developer Conference and will get more context and details. If you didn’t listen to yesterday episode for some reason here’s the summary: Samsung...
Samsung opens Bixby to third party developers
Samsung announce yesterday at the Developer Conference in San Francisco that the Bixby platform was open to developers. The Bixby developer Studio was until so far in private beta. Nersa my cofounder at VoiceFirst Labs and I were lucky enough to be in the beta program and contest for the creation of the first capsules...
The Guardian Voice Lab
Today I’ll talk about one of the indications that more companies are jumping into the voice bandwagon: the Guardian announcement yesterday: Voice Lab. According to the press release in the Guardian website, the goal is to bring the authentic voice of the Guardian to Google Assistant through experimentation and innovation. The Guardian is looking to...
Voice Search trends report summary
Global web index released last week a report on Voice Search: trends to know, a deep dive into the consumer uptake of the voice assistant technology. I summed up the main points. The report tackles 3 fundamentals: Growth prospects for voice The bigger picture of voice What are the implications for consumer privacy Here are the...
Alexa in office equipment
Alexa everywhere, soon available in office equipment. Amazon said a couple of weeks back that it debuted a new feature that lets office equipment makers more easily integrate their existing devices like video-conferencing gear and corporate calling headsets with the Alexa voice assistant. Makers will use Alexa for Business. Some of the companies that are...
The Alexa Presentation Language
Why Alexa Presentation Language might be the biggest news right now for voice apps? For developers and anyone involved in the mobile revolution around 2010, anything that promises to work in different devices seamless is like a dream. That’s what Alexa Presentation Language is seducing us with: build interactive, multimodal Alexa skills and customize them...
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