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Apple’s Siri Loses Some Traction

by Bob Raikes

Despite the general increase in the use of voice-activated personal assistants, Verto Analytics has reported that Apple’s Siri system has lost 7.3 million monthly users in the last year, dropping down to 41.4 million …

YouView Uses Alexa for Voice Control

by Yvette Raikes

The UK’s YouView FTA DTT platform has used the Alexa Video Skill API to make it easier for viewers to control its content and apps. The company says that all of its 2.4 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Tobii Introduces PCEye Plus

by Bob Raikes

Tobii Dynavox has released the PCEye Plus is a new eye tracker that incorporates a four array microphone for voice input. The device also allows the use of a switch and can be used …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Amazon Echo Look Introduced

by Alan Spencer

Amazon in the US has released a new addition to its Echo range, called the Amazon Echo Look, which is a new Alexa-controlled selfie camera which will actually act as a style assistant. The …

Tags:Amazon| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Amazon Offers its Smart Speakers in Battle with Google Home

by Alan Spencer

Amazon has started offering select manufacturers free use of its smart speaker microphone technologies as part of its efforts to spread the use of its Alexa virtual assistant. The move is in response to …

Samsung Delays Bixby Voice

by Alan Spencer

The Samsung Bixby voice assistant is not being shipped with the Galaxy S8 as originally planned. The digital assistant, which was announced last month, is a bit different than Siri or Google Now, as …

Sky Q Gets Enhancements

by Alan Spencer

Sky in the UK has announced that a voice search feature is being added to the Sky Q platform. This should make it quicker and easier for subscribers to find what they want to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Sky| STBs| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Samsung Introduces Us to Bixby

by Bob Raikes

In a blog post, InJong Rhee of Samsung has announced that it will have a voice assistant to go along with Siri, Alexa and Cortana, and will launch it with the S8 that will …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Voice Search Feature Added to Oculus Home

by Alan Spencer

There has been an update for some users to Oculus Home on Rift and Gear VR that has added a voice search feature in the VR content library. On both headsets you can click …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Voice First Devices to Grow Rapidly

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a lot of impact for Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home technology at CES and VoiceLabs has forecast that ‘voice first’ devices will grow from around 9 million in 2016 to 33 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Dish Adds Alexa Voice Control to Hopper DVR

by Bob Raikes

Dish in the US has added Alexa voice control to its Hopper DVR that will allow voice control for the Echo or Echo Dot. Starting in the first half of this year, users can …

Tags:Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 01

VPAs to Be Boosted Says Gartner

by Bob Raikes

Gartner said that by 2019, it expects 20% of all user interactions with smartphones will take place via VPAs such as Siri, Cortana or Google Now. A survey of 3,021 consumers found that 42% …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 23 - Issue 50