voice assistants
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All The Ways That Amazon Is Fixing Alexa
Amazon announced a bunch of new stuff at a big event in Seattle on Thursday. Chief among them are a volley of new features and improved functionalities for Alexa. Some of them are pretty neat. One of them involves Samuel L. Jackson.
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Your Xbox Is Listening To You, And So Are Microsoft’s Contractors
Microsoft Xbox owners will bummed to learn that humans have been listening to some of their voice commands. Motherboard recently spoke to a number of Microsoft contractors who said they’d been hired by the company to review Xbox and Cortana voice commands to improve the technology. This is the same sort of thing that’s been…
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Lawsuits Claim Amazon’s Alexa Voice Assistant Illegally Records Children Without Consent
A pair of federal lawsuits against Amazon seeking class action status allege that the e-commerce giant’s Alexa voice assistant technology “routinely records and voiceprints millions of children without their consent or the consent of their parents,” breaking laws in nine states, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.
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Yes, Apple. Siri Is Extremely Terrible
Apple is hiring an analyst, but not just any old analyst. It’s hiring someone to sift through the social media hellscape and parse just how customers really feel about its voice assistant Siri.