Google’s creepy human-sounding AI that can book an appointment on your behalf with business such as eateries is currently being rolled out to iPhone customers in the US.
Google's human-sounding AI helper which stole the show at Google I/O 2018 by making an erringly realistically sounding phone call to a hair salon is coming to your iPhone soon.
Apple's music-streaming service may soon integrate with Google Home and other third-party speakers that support Google Assistant, as well as Smart Displays and Android TV devices.
Google announced today at the CES 2019 show that it has begun rolling out its popular voice-activated Assistant feature to the mobile Maps app for iOS and Android.
The Internet giant Google yesterday refreshed its Assistant app for iPhone and iPad with support for Apple's new Siri Shortcuts feature which made its debut in iOS 12.
As first demonstrated at the Google I/O 2018 developer conference held back in May, the search giant today rolled out a tremendously useful new feature that makes it easier to chat up Assistant without requiring the “Hey Google” hot word for follow-up requests.
Ahead of HomePod's scheduled launch in Canada three days from now, Apple's Siri-driven wireless speaker can already reads the news in the 37 million people country.
Sonos today unveiled a brand-new smart sound bar for your TV with dual-assistant support and beam-forming mics whilst confirming that Siri voice control and AirPlay 2, the latest and greatest version of Apple's local media-streaming technology, are both coming to the One, second-generation Play:5, Playbase and future speakers via a free software update in July.
According to Google, its Assistant now works with more than 5,000 smart home devices.
More than two years following the release of Cortana for iPhone on App Store, software maker Microsoft's at long last added a brand new native iPad interface to its digital assistant iOS app.
In spite of criticism, Siri is the most popular personal digital assistant out there.
Samsung's personal digital assistant Bixby is currently available in Korean, but its English version won't launch by the end of this month as company executives originally promised.
As The Korea Herald reported Thursday (via The Loop), Bixby's English version has been delayed because Samsung lacks big data needed to train Bixby to speak English fluently.
“Developing Bixby in other languages is taking more time than we expected mainly because of the lack of the accumulation of big data,” said a Samsung spokesperson.
Samsung’s mobile chief, Koh Dong-jin, promised in April that Bixby’s English and Chinese versions would be unveiled in May and in June of this year, respectively.
Even though Samsung launched a beta of Bixby for some US consumers last month, it was met with mixed responses due to what Samsung described as “unsatisfactory results in terms of responding to requests and questions”.
Difficult communication between the engineers located at Samsung Research America in California and the headquarters in Korea is also blamed for Bixby's English delay.
According to a source cited in the report:
Many engineers in the United States are making full efforts to develop the English version of Bixby. But, due to geographical and language barriers their frequent reports to and communication with the management located in Korea makes the progress much slower than developing the Korean version here.
This can't be good news for Samsung, which debuted its latest Galaxy S8 lineup in March with Bixby as one of its headlining features. The new handsets feature a dedicated button on the side for quickly summoning Bixby. The South Korean company even issued a software update to stop third-party apps from changing the button's function.
Although Samsung last year snapped up Viv Labs, the developer behind Apple’s Siri, their AI technology won't be used in Bixby before the personal assistant becomes more complete.
The Wall Street Journal reported two days ago that Samsung is building a Bixby-powered smart speaker, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices against the likes of Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft.