As part of Loup Ventures’ ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input, the firm regularly tests the most common digital assistants…
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Alexa wins the Apple App Store as voice control takes over
We are all spending more time talking to our computers. This is a changing interaction with machines…
U.N. report on gendered technology calls Apple’s Siri sexist
Popular digital assistants that reply in a woman’s voice and are styled as female helpers are reinforcing sexist stereotypes…
The voice assistant war: What if nobody wins?
One of the clearest developments that came out of 2018, and prominently on display last week….
Apple’s HomeKit was a surprise winner of CES 2019
Without stepping foot in Las Vegas or making a single announcement of its own, Apple is having one of its best CES conferences in years…
Apple’s Siri has gotten a lot more accurate over the past 9 months
We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana…
AI guru John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team…
Like being tracked? Summon Google Assistant on your iPhone with Siri Shortcuts
Google has taken advantage of Siri Shortcuts in iOS to make its own Google Assistant…
The headphone wars have begun
The tech industry defines itself by answering the question of what’s next…
Sonos rises 15 percent in IPO debut
Sonos, the maker of smart speakers for the home, rose as much as 9 percent in its debut trade Thursday…
43 million people in the U.S. now own at least one smart speaker
18 percent of American adults, or around 43 million people, now own a smart speaker…
Apple’s Siri improved by 11 percentage points in correct answers over the last 15 months
As part of our ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input…
Google overtakes Amazon to lead in smart speaker market unit sales
Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment…
Apple’s HomePod makes a small dent in smart speaker market in debut quarter
Apple officially jumped into the smart speaker market in the first quarter with the HomePod…
What Google isn’t telling us about its ‘Duplex’ AI demo
Google made headlines by demonstrating an AI-powered voice assistant that made haircut and restaurant reservations…
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 600,000 HomePods in Q1 for 6% share of smart speaker market
Amazon and Google accounted for a dominant 70% share of global smart speaker shipments in Q1 2018 although their combined share has fallen from 84% in Q4 2017 and 94% in the year ago quarter…
Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, and Apple’s Siri can hear this hidden command, but you can’t
Over the past two years, researchers have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant…
Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant
Two more studies analyzing interactions with voice search and virtual assistants were released this week…
HomePod should become a hub for all Apple-centric needs
Today the HomePod is all about music, but it could be so much more…
Hey Siri: give me a product development road map for AI
Infighting, rushed development, and lack of vision have damaged Apple’s Siri development…
Former Apple employees reflect on Siri’s ‘squandered lead’ over Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
Review after review trashed Siri with words like ‘dopey,’ ‘annoying’ and ’embarrassingly inadequate’…
What Apple needs to do to improve Siri
The HomePod is coming Friday, and with it, even more attention is being paid to Siri…
Amazon Alexa could make these smart glasses way better than Google Glass
Amazon’s Alexa software has already made its way into just about every Internet-connected device…
Vuzix to debut first Amazon Alexa-enabled smart glasses at CES
The first augmented-reality glasses with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be shown…
Hey Siri, Google Assistant is winning in Artificial Intelligence and it’s not even close
Google might have a long way to go before it starts selling iPhone-like numbers..
Cornell study: Google AI boasts much higher IQ than Apple’s Siri
Compared to Bing and Siri, Google’s artificial intelligent system is a cut above the competition…
Siri, why have you fallen behind other digital assistants?
Apple has a reputation for entering markets late…
Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana to communicate with each other
The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants…
Video showdown: Apple’s Siri vs. Google Assistant
With developers already busy dissecting every major and minor change in iOS 11…
Why Google Assistant can’t beat Apple’s Siri for iPhone users
Some people think Google’s virtual assistant beats Siri in reliability and capability…
Google Assistant features that Apple’s Siri can’t currently match
Earlier this week, Google finally put the Google Assistant onto iPhones..
Alphabet to push Google Assistant to iPhone as standalone app via Apple’s App Store
Google is set to announce a version of its AI-powered assistant for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as soon as Wednesday…
Apple’s Siri has a huge language advantage
We live on an international planet….