Voice recognition
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Kawasaki has released some details on its future plans to enhance your motorcycling experience with a voice-interactive, personality-based AI assistant. And it looks absolutely terrible.
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For BMW drivers, warming the car up on cold winter mornings may no longer mean leaving the engine running for 10 minutes before beginning their commute. Instead, they may simply be able to ask Amazon's Alexa to do it for them.
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Barking voice commands at devices is pretty commonplace these days, but these are designed with adults in mind. Kids have very different speech patterns, and Disney Research has developed a system that picks out key words from chatter and overlapping speech to let kids play a game with their voice.
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A new study has indicted that speech-to-text systems can not only pump out text messages much faster than we can, but do so with better accuracy, suggesting perhaps it might not hurt to speak up when arranging our weekend plans.
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Throughout the 20th century, visions of the future imagined smart homes that could listen and respond to all our requests using voice. Amazon's Alexa is making that one-time futuristic vision of the voice-controlled smart home a reality.
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Imagine a pill-dispensing, health-focused version of Amazon Echo, and you'll get an idea of what Pillo is designed to be. Utilizing facial and voice recognition software, the internet-connected device can reportedly recognize multiple family members on sight.
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Researchers in a collaborative study found that the more a person identifies with the voice guidance in their vehicle, the more likely they are to get into an accident. The research involved a driving simulator, questionnaires, and a little trickery.
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We've spent a few weeks with the battery-powered version of the original Alexa device, the Echo, and have this review.
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Gizmag reviews Amazon Echo, the company's unique desktop personal assistant that has just become publicly available after a limited, invite-only roll out.
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Some Google Now users can now ask about a place they're near without mentioning it by name. For example, you might be standing in front of the Eiffel Tower and simply ask "How tall is this?" and Google Now will be able to discern what you're asking about based on your mobile device's location data.
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If autonomous delivery drones are ever going to see widespread use, then they can't simply fly around with no regard for other aircraft. That's why researchers from RMIT University have developed a system that lets drones communicate with air traffic controllers using a synthesized voice.
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A Russian company is working to perfect an interesting new digital personal assistant that could bridge the gap between Google Now and Siri and more futuristic artificial intelligence concepts like Samantha, Joaquin Phoenix's digital companion in the movie Her.
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