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Natural Language Understanding
Vertical Depth to Drive Popularity and Use of Bots and Intelligent Assistants
To make the leap from simple chatbot to helpful advisor, intelligent assistants require deep expertise in a specific business domain.
Duer and Siri for Apple TV Showcase How Intelligent Assistants Support Transactions
Baidu’s Duer marries the work that Baidu has done in speech recognition with search services that support the “parsing” of spoken input and indexed Web content.
Intelligent Assistants Chronicles: The Genesys-IBM Watson Partnership
In June 2014, Genesys and IBM formed a partnership which to insure that IBM’s Watson’s “cognitive computing” capabilities are integrated with Genesys’ Customer Experience (CX) platform.
Gotta Be Gotta Be Dom! That’s Domino’s New Intelligent Assistant
Dom is the product of work that Domino’s has been doing with Nuance Communications, and is a branded version of Nina Mobile, which made its debut roughly two years ago.
IBM launches Watson Engagement Advisor; Entry Level Virtual Assistant for “Smarter Commerce”
Big Blue introduced Watson Engagement Advisor at the SmarterCommerce Global Summit in Nashville, TN.
Lily (not Maxwell the Pig or the Gecko) Offers Voice Assistance to GEICO Customers
GEICO, the diversified insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, has teamed with Nuance Communications to offer its own mobile, personal virtual assistant (PVA) branded as Lily.
Nuance and Expect Labs Combine to Showcase Power of Understanding Speech
Expect Labs will introduce its first product, MindMeld for iPads, to showcase how its core technology embedded in a tablet will support a new kind of interpersonal communication.
Research Report: Personal Virtual Assistants: Primer and Planning Guide
We used to laugh at the idea of “the talking toaster” when thinking about the gratuitous addition of a speech-based interface to household appliances, consumer electronics, self-service kiosks or even ATMs. Now the machines laugh at us, as improvements in natural language understanding, artificial intelligence and text-to-speech rendering make phones, tablets, computers and (yes) household appliances more conversational, human-like and responsive to spoken input.
Mark Cuban Invests in Linguasys
Mark Cuban is taking ownership of “a significant position” in Machine Translation and Text Analytics specialist LinguaSys.