Apple's AI-powered assistant as well as Samsung's have lost users from May of last year to this May. Google, Microsoft and Hound have made some gains.
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Nintendo dropped a heck of a teaser for the Switch console. LeEco dropped a heck of a phone at a mid-ranger price. Plus, The FCC dropped a heck of a fine on T-Mobile for throttling unlimited data. These stories, plus we’re answering your tech questions, so make sure you’re charged and ready for the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the live video broadcast from 2:00pm Eastern on October 20th (click here for your local time), or check out the ...
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Boombotix is an audio hardware startup that prides itself on headphones and customizable Bluetooth speakers. But with the smart speaker industry growing like popcorn and one major voice assistant service underrepresented, the company thinks it can find its own niche in bringing the Hurricane speaker to Kickstarter for a round of crowdfunding.Hurricane is powered by
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The glow of MWC 2016 is fading, and we’ve shared our early reactions to the new devices announced. Did Samsung build an unbreakable phone? Will anyone actually buy the LG G5? Plenty of people pre-ordered the HTC Vive, which is a good thing considering the M10’s first teaser vid was a dud. Are folks game to play with a new voice assistant? Soundhound thinks you’ll be impressed with their new helper.We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and prepping for the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into tech ...
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The glow of MWC 2016 is fading, and we’ve shared our early reactions to the new devices announced. Did Samsung build an unbreakable phone? Will anyone actually buy the LG G5? Plenty of people pre-ordered the HTC Vive, which is a good thing considering the M10’s first teaser vid was a dud. Are folks game to play with a new voice assistant? Soundhound thinks you’ll be impressed with their new helper.We’ve been hard at work covering news stories and prepping for the next generation of phone reviews. We recently started a new series of videos delving deeper into tech ...
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There are loud voices in the voice assistants category, but what does it take to make one pop out to you from nowhere for you to take the effort to download? After all, the one you already have on your phone works just fine for you, thanks much.Tell that to Hound, SoundHound’s effort at taking complex orders and giving it all it has to ...
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No, I’m not talking about their sound. I mean, sure, developers can definitely help relating voice assistants’ with the average user by fine-tuning their voices to sound like people and not cyborgs. I think, though, that they should retain some robotic quality so that users clearly know what they’re interacting with as opposed to who.How Google Now, Siri, Cortana, or any other voice service interacts with you is more important. Important to you, the person who wants data from the internet. It’s most important to the companies behind the services which gain income ...
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Hound is SoundHound’s new voice assistant to compete with the likes of Google Now, Siri, and Cortana. It, like the others, can launch apps, run search queries, identify songs, and more, but one thing that’s caught wide attention for this service is its ability to process complex, multi-part queries in a manner similar to Wolfram Alpha. Questions like “What is the population and capital for Japan and China?” work without a hitch, and very quickly at that.But rarely will most people ask a voice assistant such complicated questions. Instead, most people use these ...
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Nearly every member of the Pocketnow team uses digital personal assistants in some way. Whether it’s Google Now, Siri, or Cortana, these systems offer voice commands, as well as personalized recommendations based on contextual information like location or emails. But while each service has its own unique features that set it apart from the others, none of them offer the same kind of fully fledged, natural language-based voice interface found on services like Wolfram Alpha.SoundHound recently demoed a new product, simply called Hound, that seems to offer similar functionality to ...
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