Amazon.com’s acquisition of text-to-speech specialist IVONA marks progress along two separate paths for Conversational Commerce.
Virtual Personal Assistants
Meet Lola, BBVA’s Next Generation Virtual Personal Assistant, In Cahoots with SRI
he wraps are off a new Web-based virtual personal assistant (VPA) developed over the past two years by Spanish financial services provider, BBVA.
A “Truly Hands Free” Speech Sighting at Mobile World Congress
I want to draw your attention to the video below, where a Samsung executive features Vlingo’s Virtual Assistant application running on the Galaxy S II smartphone, which is an Android-based device slated to launch on Vodafone UK’s network later this year.
Vlingo Reveals its 2011 “Virtual Assistant” Roadmap
With the Mobile World Congress fast approaching, Vlingo deemed it timely to introduce the full range of products and services it plans to introduce in the coming year under its “Virtual Assistant” marketing umbrella.