Tag: Amazon Alexa
Quarter of Brits struggle to get gadgets to work, reckons Which?
A quarter of British adults struggle to get their new gadgets to work. New research from Which? shows that just over one in four (27%) adults who received a tech gift this year at Christmas had problems using their gift. And just over in four (28%) of us were still trying to get their tech up…
CES 2019: Google Assistant gets smarter with new interpretation and navigation tools
Google Assistant will soon be able to automatically check users into flights and reply to text messages from user voice commands, the tech giant has announced. The technology giant’s artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant is also to get an interpreter mode to help conduct conversations in dozen of languages using both audio and visual cues, Google…
Half of us now using smart speakers, Accenture study finds
Half of online consumers globally now use digital voice assistants, or smart speakers, with emerging markets leading the way in adoption. This comes after Amazon announced that it had been selling out of its popular digital voice assistant over the festive period and that 100m devices have now been sold around the world Standalone voice assistants – or…
Amazon introduces Christmas Countdown feature to Alexa – including Santa stories!
Amazon Alexa users are now able to hear a story from Father Christmas and have the virtual assistant sing Christmas songs as part of a new festive feature. Called Christmas Countdown, the new Alexa Skill means that when users ask “how many sleeps until Christmas?”, they’ll hear a Christmas story from Santa and a different…
