Beauty when it comes to voicebots boils down to how the voicebot sounds, the words and constructions it uses, and how elegantly it handles the back and forth of human to voicebot conversations.
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Advanced Text-To-Speech Promises New Possibilities for Siri (and Others)
Truly natural sounding TTS will open up new worlds of possibilities for voice app developers, brands, and customer support teams.
Redefining UI: Compelling & Conversational Intelligent Assistants
How conversational user interfaces — voice, text, graphical, etc. — are meeting the needs of today’s bots and intelligent assistants? From Intelligent Assistants Conference San Francisco hosted by Opus Research. [VIDEO]
Who’s Your Metabot? What’s Next for Intelligent Personal Assistants
As Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and other “metabots” build rich, third-party ecosystems, these intelligent personal assistants are unhooking the direct link between brands and their customers. [VIDEO]
Aloft Hotels Announces Voice-Controlled Hotel Rooms
By enabling hotel guests to use natural language to adjust room controls, peruse entertainment options and order food, Aloft Hotels attempts to attract the “early adopter, hyper-connected global traveler.”
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.
Facebook Launches M, the Mobile, Messenger-Based Intelligent Assistant That Taps Human Expertise
Facebook soft-launches an intelligent virtual assistant embedded within the company’s Messenger iOS and Android apps that combines artificial intelligence with human-supervised assistance.
Amazon Makes Intelligent Assistance Easier With Alexa Voice Services and a Free SDK
Amazon created simple tools and APIs for app developers to use to add a human-like spoken interface to mobile, consumer electronic devices.
How Google, Apple, and Microsoft Are Building Intelligent Assistants for the Enterprise
The Big Three — Apple, Google, and Microsoft — are devoting significant research and development to improve their personal intelligent assistant offerings and further embed them into an enterprise application ecosystem.
Breadcrumbs, a “scaled down” Siri API, Set to Support Informed, Intelligent Assistance
Apple is pursuing an initiative with the codename “Proactive” that will ingest data from resources that reside on the device, including Contacts, Calendar, Passbook along with selected, installed 3rd-party apps to provide highly informed responses, search results and suggestions.