Topic: voice assistant
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Try Google Gemini for Your Home Now
Google has launched the Gemini for Home early access program in the U.S., integrating its advanced AI into the redesigned Google Home app and replacing Google Assistant on compatible devices. Gemini enhances smart home interactions by understanding complex, multi-step commands, enabling tasks lik...
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Google Maps Gets Smarter with Gemini AI Integration
Google Maps is integrating Gemini AI to become a conversational driving companion, replacing the standard microphone with the Gemini logo for intuitive, voice-activated assistance. This upgrade allows drivers to use natural dialogue for tasks like finding toll-free routes or checking weather, enh...
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Gemini for Home: Release Date, Countries, and How to Get Early Access
Google's Gemini for Home initiative is launching globally, introducing a redesigned app, advanced camera features, and a new voice assistant, with availability varying by location and subscription tier. The updated Google Home app includes a new layout and search functionality, with free users ga...
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Porsche's Curved Screen Defines the Electric Cayenne
The Porsche Cayenne Electric will feature an innovative curved OLED "Flow Display," the largest and most distinctive screen Porsche has ever used, integrated with a new operating system for a cohesive digital cabin experience. Porsche's design philosophy merges the Cayenne's core characteristics ...
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Govi Mithuru: Sri Lanka's First AI-Powered Farming Assistant
Sri Lanka has launched its first AI-powered farming assistant through the Govi Mithuru platform, offering expert agricultural guidance to farmers and home gardeners via advanced digital tools. The platform includes innovative features like a trilingual AI chat and voice bot for immediate answers ...
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Amazon's Fall Event: New Echo, Kindle, and Ring Devices Revealed
Amazon unveiled new and upgraded devices across Echo, Kindle, Ring, Blink, and Fire TV, emphasizing hardware and positioning Alexa+ as "ambient AI" to seamlessly integrate into daily life. The Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft were highlighted for their ultra-slim design, reduced lag for ...
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Alexa Plus Frees You From Your Phone on TV
Alexa Plus enhances TV viewing by providing intuitive, context-aware responses that reduce the need for phone checks, keeping viewers immersed in their entertainment. It expands Prime Video's X-Ray feature, allowing users to ask about actors, filming locations, trivia, and skip directly to specif...
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Amazon Echo Dot Max: The Ultimate Smart Speaker
Amazon has launched the Echo Dot Max, a new smart speaker with a spherical design and a flat front panel housing controls and an LED light ring. The device integrates with the Alexa Plus subscription service, enabling natural conversations, multi-device control with single commands, and personali...
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Alexa's Future Depends on Your Next Amazon Purchase
Amazon is shifting Alexa to a generative AI service called Alexa+ with a subscription model to monetize the platform, as current devices are popular but unprofitable. New premium hardware has been introduced to enhance interactions with Alexa+, but this strategy risks alienating customers accusto...
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Alexa Plus: Smarter, But Still Not Smart Enough
Alexa Plus introduces a conversational interface allowing natural language commands and mid-command corrections, though it still falls short of creating a fully ambient home experience. The system excels at executing multi-step commands and managing smart devices intuitively, but suffers from inc...
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Google Home's 'Ask Home' Redesign Launches on iPhone
The Google Home app for iPhone has been redesigned with a new visual identity and introduces the "Ask Home" feature, which includes a chat-style interface for device control and search, though complex conversational prompts are not yet active. Navigation is streamlined into three main tabs—Home, ...
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Apple Tests ChatGPT-Like App to Improve Siri
Apple is developing an internal AI application similar to ChatGPT to test and improve a major Siri update planned for next year. The tool allows engineers to rapidly evaluate new features, including Siri's ability to search personal data like songs and emails. It also tests Siri's proficiency in ...
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I Tried Smart Glasses That Outperform Meta Ray-Bans - Here’s How
The Rokid Glasses are an AI wearable priced at $599, featuring advanced capabilities like a Micro LED waveguide display for immersive text, translations, and teleprompter functions. They have a discreet design that resembles ordinary glasses and offer intuitive interaction through touch, voice co...
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These Rokid Glasses Made Meta Ray-Bans Feel Obsolete
The Rokid Glasses are AI-powered eyewear that integrate digital assistance into the user's field of vision using Micro LED waveguide displays for a monochrome visual interface. They feature an intuitive user experience with a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, live translation, and a teleprompter f...
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Control Your Hue Lights with Sonos Speakers
Philips Hue and Sonos have integrated to allow voice control of Hue lights through Sonos speakers, enabling commands for on/off, brightness, and scenes with faster local processing. This marks the Sonos voice assistant's first expansion beyond music into broader smart home functionality, reflecti...
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Apple's Siri May Get an AI Upgrade Powered by Google
Apple is developing a major AI upgrade for Siri, potentially using Google's Gemini technology, to enhance its capabilities and compete in the digital assistant market. The upgrade will transform Siri into a more proactive tool with features like web content summarization, using a multi-layered ar...
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Rollme's $79.99 Smart Glasses Translate Speech in Real-Time
Rollme's AirView smart glasses, priced at $79.99, offer real-time translation, object recognition, and media capture with on-device AI, eliminating the need for constant internet connectivity. The glasses feature an 8MP camera, dual microphones for clear audio, and a voice assistant for hands-fre...
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