Assistants

We had some idea this was coming. In June, Google released a handful of developer tools meant to make Google Assistant more capable. As part of that update, it…

One of the fascinating long-term discussions of the future is whether we’re trending toward the world in the book 1984 or Brave New World.  While most of us…

Action Blocks is an Android app from Google that lets you reduce complex smartphone tasks from dozens of different actions down to a single tap. Millions of…

As keen tech adopters know, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Facebook Portal are AI-powered internet platforms that users control by issuing…

Google under its current operation of making its services available to people without smartphones or data connectivity issues, announced a new phone-line…

Since Siri debuted on the iPhone 4s back in 2011, voice assistants have gone from unworkable gimmick to the basis for smart speaker technology found in one in…

Google today open-sourced Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation (CCPE) and Taskmaster-1, datasets of dialog between two people. Both datasets are…

Another security problem has been spotted in voice assistant platforms. However, this one has nothing to do with the recent controversy over private…

Voice assistants, like Google Assistant and Alexa, record what you say after the wake word to send off to company servers. The companies keep your recordings…

Voice assistants have been around for a few years but it’s only recently that they have become household names – at least Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa…