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voice assistant

OpenAI Opens New AI Voice Capability to Third-Party Developers
OpenAI Opens New AI Voice Capability to Third-Party Developers
October 01, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

OpenAI is expanding access to its real-time voice assistant technology, allowing businesses and developers to integrate the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool into their own applications,...

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Google Reports 2 Million Developers Building With Its GenAI Solutions
Google Reports 2 Million Developers Building With Its GenAI Solutions
September 24, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) model Gemini is being put to work by companies in a variety of ways, delivering answers, recommendations and new capabilities to...

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Waiting for Alexa: When Will Amazon Strike Up the AI Conversation?
Waiting for Alexa: When Will Amazon Strike Up the AI Conversation?
May 22, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Someday — and it may be soon — conversations with Amazon’s automated voice assistant Alexa may cost money. Amazon has been clear about its intentions to charge a subscription...

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Amazon Employees Debate Idea of Charging for Alexa
Amazon Employees Debate Idea of Charging for Alexa
January 22, 2024  |  Amazon

Would you pay a subscription to use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa? Inside the company, that’s apparently the subject of some debate. A recent Business Insider...

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Volkswagen Integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT Into In-Car Voice Assistant
Volkswagen Integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT Into In-Car Voice Assistant
January 09, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Volkswagen has integrated OpenAI’s artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, into its IDA voice assistant. This integration will provide Volkswagen customers with seamless access to an ever-expanding AI database,...

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TomTom Develops In-Car Voice AI Assistant With Microsoft
TomTom Develops In-Car Voice AI Assistant With Microsoft
December 19, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

Mapping/navigation company TomTom says it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, in-car conversational assistant in collaboration with Microsoft. The tool offers enhanced voice interaction with infotainment, location search, and...

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White Castle: QSR Voice AI Will See ‘Rapid Advance’ in 2024
White Castle: QSR Voice AI Will See ‘Rapid Advance’ in 2024
December 18, 2023  |  ResTech

In 2024, voice automation will continue to rapidly gain traction in the restaurant industry, boosting drive-thru efficiency and better meeting consumer demand for the channel,...

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Thirty Percent of US Millennials Use a Voice Assistant to Pay Bills
Thirty Percent of US Millennials Use a Voice Assistant to Pay Bills
October 24, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

The Voice Economy is gaining momentum as consumers turn to voice technology for a variety of tasks.  The most common tasks performed with this technology...

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Multilingual AI Assistants Boost Voice Tech Appeal Despite Uneven Adoption
Multilingual AI Assistants Boost Voice Tech Appeal Despite Uneven Adoption
October 17, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

Is your smart voice assistant speaking your language? With how technology is fast evolving, the likelihood of that answer being “yes” grows stronger with each...

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