smart assistants
-
Bypass Siri With This Stick-On Smart Speaker That Brings Google Assistant and Alexa to Your iPhone
The three most popular AI-powered smart assistants are all available on the iPhone, but only Siri can hear and acknowledge your voice requests while the phone is locked. For Alexa and Google Assistant, you have to be actively using your iPhone and have the Amazon or Google apps open to access them. That’s a problem,…
-
The Pop Culture Robots that Influenced Smart Voice Assistants
Last year, nearly one third of Australian adults owned a smart speaker device allowing them to call on “Alexa” or “Siri”. Now, with more time spent indoors due to COVID-19, smart voice assistants may be playing even bigger roles in people’s lives. But not everyone embraces them. In our paper published in New Media Society,…
-
Sony’s AIBO Robo-Dog Could Be Trained To Operate Hitachi’s Smart Appliances For You
Most smart appliances can be remotely operated using an app, but for voice control, you usually need to add an intermediary like Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. Sony thinks Aibo could fill that role too, in the company’s latest attempt to convince consumers to spend $US2,900 ($4,251) on its robotic dog.
-
Google Assistant Is About To Get Better
Google Assistant is finally going to be easier to use, according to Google. Just a few days after the company announced that the virtual assistant now works with over 5000 devices, Google says that Assistant will soon not only sound more natural, but you’ll also be able to have a conversation with it.