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by Alex Dobie
May 07, 2013
Samsung's voice assistant on the Galaxy S4 burns rival Apple
S Voice is Samsung's take on a voice-based personal assistant. And by that we mean it's heavily inspired by Apple's&n...
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by Rene Ritchie
Feb 26, 2013
Marc Edwards of Bjango, Guy English of Kicking Bear, Loren Brichter of Atebits, Sebastiaan de With of DoubleTwist, and Rene Ritchie of Mobile Nations talk human interfaces of the future, including Si...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 23, 2013
From a Huffington Post feature on the origins of Apple's 'Siri' comes the revelation that the famed voice assistant almost became a poster child for Verizon's line of Android phones....
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by Simon Sage
Oct 24, 2012
Today Nuance kicked off the beta for a new app called Dragon Mobile Assistant. It lets users talk to their phones in a natural human voice for a variety of tasks, including booking calendar appointm...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 23, 2012
LG is getting into the natural voice computing game with Q Voice, and they say it will be coming to English speakers in the first half of 2013. Using the Wernicke engine, Q Voice uses &quo...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 30, 2012
Jelly Bean's new Google Now voice assistant clearly knows its stuff.
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 22, 2012
Update: HTC has confirmed that this is in fact just a joke, and they're not working on voice control tech for dogs or humans.
Original: The Galaxy S III might be "designed for humans,...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 19, 2012
There's no denying that iOS's Siri has been a huge success for Apple, usability issues aside. And it's no real secret that Google's been working on its own voice assistant tech...
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by Alex Dobie
May 21, 2012
The application file for Samsung's "S Voice" Siri clone interactive voice assistant agent was leaked over the weekend, leading to hundreds of less scrupulous users picking up the apk a...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2012
Being able to talk to your phone and have it talk back to you isn't necessarily a new feature, but it's certainly been made popular with Siri on the iPhone 4S. And in some brief testing toda...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2012
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Since Apple unveiled Siri, everyone has jumped on the "virtual assistant" bandwagon. Take a solid set of voice actions, give it a cutesy name and claim it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 24, 2012
We've talked before about what it takes for an app to truly be a competitor to Apple's Siri.
It needs to be easily accessible, and launch quickly. Very quickly.
It needs ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2011
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There are a few things a voice-recognition app needs to do well to be successful -- and must do extremely well if it wants to call itself a competitor to Apple'...
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by Joshua Munoz
Nov 03, 2011
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I might not think Siri is all that and a bag of chips, but I've got to hand it to Apple for one thing: it sounds good. Listening to the articulate, smooth-talki...
