Samsung's latest acquisition likely targets the progress of its Bixby assistant and an AI-powered smart speaker, which need all the help they can get.
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As weird as it sounds, Samsung has officially confirmed early US adopters of Galaxy S8 phones will receive a voice-crippled Bixby assistant at first.
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Future Galaxy S8 buyers, your voice assistant has arrived, dubbed Bixby as expected, and aiming to do a lot more than mimic Siri or Alexa... eventually.
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Google Voice is updated after a five-year standstill, and we weren't able to resist the temptation of quickly reviewing the modernized app.
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The surprise was ruined a couple of weeks back, but it's still something else to see Google Voice updated and redesigned after half a decade of... nothing.
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Amazon might be understandably hesitant about building another handheld that would probably never live down the Fire Phone mess, but with Alexa’s growing popularity, we wonder why third-party OEMs aren’t more interested in natively supporting the intelligent personal assistant.
If you feel comfortable literally talking to the hand, you can at least order Alexa via voice to make phone calls using Martian mVoice smartwatches now. As the name suggests, this was already a family of stylish analog wearables focused on voice interaction, with turn by turn navigation and a number of other very practical hands-free commands made possible out the box.
A software update however brings a massive new total of over 5,000 Alexa skills to the mVoice, including smart home controls, quick and secure Amazon.com shopping, To Do’s and Reminders, weather forecasts, various information web searches, restaurant scouting, and much, much more.
Granted, this isn’t the world’s first Alexa-enabled smartwatch, and Martian is hardly what we’d call an industry leader or pioneer, but it has a bit of experience in the field, an established reputation, and it’s not asking for Indiegogo pledges. Just $295 outright on the manufacturing company’s US website, or a far lower $160 through Amazon, where the wrist-worn gadget is “temporarily of stock.”
Alexa is officially supported on first and third-party tablets, smartwatches, intelligent speakers, digital media players and even robots nowadays, which again begs the obvious question – why not smartphones?
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So, you’re travelling to somewhere you don’t know. Easy to figure out the point A to point B of things — just set Google Maps to navigation mode, clip your device to the dashboard or vent (really, we do suggest getting a clip device) and have that Google voice tell you where to turn.But if you need to grab a pit stop or some flowers along the way, you now have the ability to yell ...
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Regular users of Google Voice won’t hesitate to tell you that the service is ten kinds of awesome, letting them juggle multiple devices while only distributing a single phone number to friends, family, and business contacts. If you’re using it for calls or text messages, everything tends to work just fine, but when we start bringing pictures into the mix, a lot of users hit a brick wall. Problem is, Voice support for MMS has been extremely limited, and while
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With Google+ Hangouts came the promise of integration with Google Voice down the road — it was supposed to be Google’s unified chat client for all of its communication services. Today, as one member of the internet discovered, this merger looks to be one step closer to completion, as a screen within the app showed off Hangouts Google Voice integration setup.The screenshot was made possible because of a debug menu. This debug menu ...
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We’ve been talking to our phones since the very beginning — or so it would seem. As we’ve said before, that’s not entirely true. Although we use our phones to talk to other people, we haven’t really been talking “to” our phones, but rather “through” our phones. That started to change years ago as manufacturers began to include various features that let us control our phones with our voices. At first these were very basic and required you to record the names of those who you wanted to dial — sometimes multiple times. Others made ...
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