It’s been over a year since Amazon opened up its Alexa Voice Service to developers, allowing anyone to make their own hardware device with Alexa support. But so far, only a few devices have come out to take advantage of it. While earlier products have added Alexa to speakers on a fridge or a smart home hub, […]
Betaworks startup studio is today announcing the second in its line of accelerator camps in the form of voicecamp. And no, this won’t make you a better chorus member. Earlier this year, betaworks launched botcamp as a way to better understand and fuel growth of the chatbot space. With today’s announcement, betaworks wants to apply […]
Paul Briden 07/03/2018 – 12:58pm Google Home devices in the UK will finally get voice calling this week Google Home smart speakers have had hands-free voice-calling functionality in the US for a while now, but the feature has been absent for users in the UK. That’s soon going to change, according to new information. The […]
Every major moment in North Carolina history was scored by Durham’s trademark voice. “The Voice of the Tar Heels,” broadcasting legend Woody Durham died on Wednesday at his home from complications from Primary Progressive Aphasia. He was 76-years old. Only a few broadcasters in sports history are so indelibly linked to the teams they cover […]
How to jio voice call, 4G Voice App, Jio 4G Voice for Windows, Jio 4G Voice Call for Windows Phone, Jio4GVoice – Although Reliance Jio gained momentum in a very short span, due to the innumerable limitations set up by the company, several smartphone users are still a little skeptic about getting a new Jio […]
Now Spotify listens to you instead of the other way around. Spotify has a new voice search interface that lets you say “Play my Discover Weekly,” “Show Calvin Harris” or “Play some upbeat pop” to pull up music. A Spotify spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this is “Just a test for now,” as only a […]
Voice interfaces are confusing. Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and Google Now all want you to speak to them to get stuff done, but unlike with visual interfaces, there’s no obvious way of knowing what it is you can ask. Well, that problem has now been solved for Google at least, with this handy directory of everything you can […]
Most of the time we think of Amazon’s Echo devices as Bluetooth speakers with some handy voice commands built in, but the retailer wants to remind you they’re also tools for shopping. In the run-up to the company’s annual Prime Day sale (July 12th), Amazon is offering a number of Echo-exclusive deals. There’s not a massive range […]
More intimate than text but easier to record than video, Facebook hopes voice could get people sharing more on its aging social network. And internationally, where users may have to deal with non-native language keyboards, voice lets them speak their mind without a typing barrier. Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update […]
We might finally get to stop asking, “Wait, what’s your Skype name?” thanks to a test of new Facebook group audio calling on desktop. Facebook launched group voice calls on its mobile Messenger app in April, and now it’s working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office. It could become […]