A year later, Amazon’s voice assistant alliance still hasn’t attracted any of its rivals
Last September, Amazon announced a voice assistant alliance ahead of its yearly fall event with the goal to ensure smart devices are compatible with multiple digital assistants concurrently. Full Story: The Verge
Alexa can now print things out for you
Amazon has updated Alexa with a handy new skill, and its voice assistant can do your printing for you. Full Story: The Ambient
Influential Voice Platforms of 2020
The internet is perhaps the biggest example of the long fabled technology that would one day make it so that you can get pretty much anything and everything done with a single word. Full Story: Digital Information World
How to Use Cortana with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is continually updating and improving to serve the changing needs of modern employees. Full Story: UC Today
Microsoft Adds Voice Commands, Transcription to Office 365
Microsoft has released its Transcribe in Word feature to the Microsoft 365 subscribers a year after first announcing the function. Full Story: Voicebot.ai
Google testing Assistant lockscreen notification for one-tap access to voice commands
Over the past week, Google has been testing an Assistant notification on the lockscreen that provides tappable access to frequent commands. It looks to be an extension of Google making its voice assistant more ambient. Full Story: 9to5Google
Amazon starts work with driverless delivery team in Cambridge
The US company is hiring a team of software development engineers in Cambridge to work on the robots. Full Story: Telegraph.co.uk
Amazon wants to put Alexa in rental properties, but they’re not listening, they swear
Amazon’s program aims to put their product in rental properties, but they swear they’ll delete any conversations Alexa records. Full Story: The Big Smoke
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
Amazon on Thursday announced Alexa for Residential, a new program designed to make it easier for landlords and property managers to add Alexa devices to rental units to create smart apartments (smarpartments? smartments?) Full Story: The Verge
5 best new Alexa features for Amazon Echo in your home and car, and how to use them
Amazon’s new Alexa assistant tools include making emergency contact calls and paying for gas hands-free. Full Story: CNET
