This phone will also take custom passphrases with its always-on microphones and let you change the music while it's off with its always-on display.
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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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Of all the rumored improvements Windows Phone 8.1 will bring, perhaps none is as important as Cortana. Not that a fully-featured voice assistant is a make-or-break qualification for a platform’s success; rather, Cortana symbolizes a more important shift in Microsoft’s priorities. With its leaked “Notebook” functionality, the new Windows Phone companion may bring the ability to catalog your personal information for later reference – an important component for any modern “digital assistant.” But we’ve seen that kind of information mining put to ...
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Since the relatively early days of Android, Google has let us use our voice to do somewhat common tasks like sending text messages or emails. I could say “Send a text message to Bendito Papendorf: hey, I love the new book!”. But who is Bendito Papendorf, and why can’t I say “Send a text message to Mom”? Before we dig into this new feature, be advised that it’s relatively new and might be rolling out in stages. If you haven’t gotten it yet, be patient. Next, there’s been a work around to this in the past. If you create an entry in your ...
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