It’s raining Harman Kardon and JBL speakers and headphones at CES 2018

Made by Samsung subsidiary Harman International, the Allure Portable speaker, JBL Everest series of headphones, Reflect Mini 2, Contour 2, Endurance family and JBL GO 2 are invading CES 2018.

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Powerful UE Blast and Megablast portable speakers come with hands-free Alexa voice support

There's no shortage of decent voice-controlled speakers these days, but the Alexa-powered UE Blast and Megablast might be some of the very best.

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Version 2.06 of Android Auto listens for OK Google

You know what’d be a great feature for a smart head unit of a car? Voice controls. You know why Android Auto didn’t include the “OK Google” trigger phrase to launch a command until now? We don’t either, but that’s apparently what Reddit is hot about today.

The November 29 release of the app does not list the new ability in its changelog, but apparently, the feature works. Whether you’re using the app on your phone or on said head unit, you should now be able to ask Google to change up your jams without pressing the microphone button.

The odd irony is that for all this time, you could still trigger “OK Google” from outside the Android Auto app.

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Google Assistant gains IFTTT support for dozens of custom voice commands

Google’s two-way conversational personal assistant is no joking matter. While it still needs to prove its practical worth in a very crowded, very competitive industry segment against beloved veterans like Alexa, Cortana and Siri, early Pixel phone adopters can probably attest to its quick progresses.Just a few ...

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Voice controls for Google Play Music may be incoming

You can ask Google Now to play Prince’s “Purple Rain” for you on Google Play Music, but why not ask that app itself? Well, you still can’t do that just yet, but you may be able to if some XDA hounds have sniffed out the right target.It stems from this errant microphone icon that appears. In some instances, it partially blocks the song info bar on the playback screen. Thing is, Maxr1998 was able ...

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Here’s how “OK Google” everywhere could make your Android completely hands-free

Most of you already know that I began my digital life as a Newton guy. To this day my MessagePad 2000U could do things that even the latest smartphones running the most customized ROM still can’t do. When it was later rolled back into Apple then killed off, I switched to Pocket PC. It was hobbled together and didn’t come close to how well integrated Newton was. Not until Voice Command came along. Instead of a feature, MS Voice Command was a purchased app that you could install on your PDA. This had advantages and disadvantages, but brought with it a whole new way of interacting ...

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