Alexa often asks me, unprompted, if I’d like it to give me a heads-up when snow is forecasted. It’s an unexpectedly proactive gesture. Except here in the San Francisco Bay Area, snow is never in the ...

Google’s voice assistant is better than Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri at understanding medication names when asked by users, but Alexa and Siri are closing the gap, according to a May 19 study ...

There's no double that voice-controlled assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google, and Siri have become an indispensable part of ...

Have you ever noticed how all digital assistants seem to sound the same? Well, they don't have to. Alternative digital assistant voices and accents are tucked away on many devices, ready to assist you ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With the powers of context and conversation, Siri and Alexa could one day be totally amazing instead of vaguely ...

You’re suddenly thrown into a situation where you must perform CPR to save a life. Oh, no — you don’t remember anything from that course 15 years ago. You might think a quick “Hey, Siri” would pull up ...

Siri doesn’t have all the answers, but Apple’s digital assistant continues to get smarter. Loup Ventures fires 800 questions at the leading digital assistants for its twice-a-year IQ Test to measure ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. AI has made virtual assistants a big deal again. So far, it looks like ChatGPT, Siri, Alexa, and the rest are all ...

Google Assistant was supposed to be Google’s future. The voice assistant was an early attempt at ambient computing that gave customers a one-on-one relationship with all of the company’s products.