voice activation

A voice-user interface makes spoken human interaction with computers possible, using speech recognition to understand spoken commands and answer questions, and typically text to speech to play a reply. A voice command device is a device controlled with a voice user interface.

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Samsung’s Bixby Aimed At Making Inroads In The Virtual Assistant Market
Samsung’s Bixby Aimed At Making Inroads In The Virtual Assistant Market
October 19, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

To take on Siri and Alexa, Samsung Electronics, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, has announced its Bixby 2.0, a reinvention of its digital assistant...

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Amazon Expands Alexa’s Ability To Make Custom Lists
Amazon Expands Alexa’s Ability To Make Custom Lists
October 18, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is expanding the number of Alexa custom lists users can create, a move to enhance one of its voice-activated digital assistant’s most frequently used...

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The Future Is Still Unclear For Voice Shopping
The Future Is Still Unclear For Voice Shopping
October 13, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Voice shopping is still a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s one that nearly 20 percent of consumers have used and another 33 percent plan to...

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Amazon To Control 68 Percent Of Smart Speaker Market In 2017
Amazon To Control 68 Percent Of Smart Speaker Market In 2017
October 13, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Despite the efforts on the part of competitors to reign in Amazon’s leadership in the voice-activated smart speaker market, thanks to the Echo powered by...

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Google Adds Target To Its Voice-Activated Ecosystem
Google Adds Target To Its Voice-Activated Ecosystem
October 12, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Aiming to compete better with the likes of Amazon and Walmart, Target announced news on Thursday (Oct. 12) of a new partnership with Google in...

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Alexa Can Recognize Multiple Voices
Alexa Can Recognize Multiple Voices
October 12, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon’s Alexa now offers voice recognition that can tell the difference between family members’ voices. Users can set up voice recognition using the Echo, Echo...

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
October 09, 2017  |  Commerce

Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand...

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Bridging Speech and Loyalty with Voice Activated Rewards
Bridging Speech and Loyalty with Voice Activated Rewards
September 19, 2017  |  Tech Center

The voice-activated assistant is gaining currency with consumers. Use of the devices is growing like gangbusters. Research from eMarketer shows that as many as 35 million...

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How Retailers Can Manage The Coming Voice Disruption
How Retailers Can Manage The Coming Voice Disruption
September 18, 2017  |  News

Think back just five years ago. In 2012, we were five years into the smartphone revolution, and most people thought we were crazy writing about...

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