Digital Assistant

Oracle launches Digital Assistant, an AI enabled chatbot to automate routine tasks

Users can converse with the Oracle Digital Assistant via the voice interface.

Facebook’s smart speaker ‘Portal’ and voice assistant ‘Aloha’ leaked again

Facebook is apparently also integration Aloha with both Messenger and its primary app.

Russian firm Yandex has launched its $160 smart speaker for its digital assistant 'Alice'

Yandex launched a $160 smart speaker to work with its digital assistant ‘Alice’, becoming the latest challenger to the home helpers from Silicon Valley .

Apple is working on a feature to allow Siri to send a smart response to callers whose calls you've declined

According to the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the tech giant is reportedly working to make its digital assistant Siri to help provide the caller with a reason on why the call was rejected through a text message.

Siri might soon get smarter as Apple posts job openings for engineers who can work on its AI assistant

Apple has been under fire due to Siri's lagging intelligence. Several media reports have suggested that Siri's performance was below par.

Apple promises to fix bug which let Siri read messages aloud from lockscreen notifications

Siri's behaviour becomes a privacy issue because it can read out messages and emails from third-party apps

Amazon Alexa gets a new 'Brief mode' option that makes it less chatty by cutting down on unnecessary responses

Where Alexa would normally respond with “OK” or some other such appropriate response to a query, there is now an option to make Alexa respond with a beep.

Amazon to fix Alexa's creepy laughter which has been spooking Echo users

Amazon said that sometimes Alexa mistakes a command as “Alexa laugh”

Microsoft is internally testing Cortana integration within its Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android

Cortana's integration into Microsoft Outlook for mobile will also allow it to scan through emails and read them aloud whenever necessary.

Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana to support more smart home devices and integrate with IFTTT

Cortana running on Windows 10 Operating System (OS), iPhone, Android and the Harman Kardon Invoke speakers, can be used to control these devices.