“U.S. Bank has debuted a Spanish-speaking version of its Smart Assistant mobile app voice assistant. The bank claims Asistente Inteligente de U.S. Bank is the first such tool among financial institutions in the U.S., allowing customers to converse by voice and text with the AI in Spanish. The Clinc-powered natural language understanding blends with the…
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A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Language AI Startups Is Coming
“Cohere – https://cohere.ai Hugging Face – https://huggingface.co AI21 – https://www.ai21.com Primer – https://primer.ai Inflection AI – https://inflection.ai You.com – https://you.com ZIR AI – https://zir-ai.com Algolia – https://www.algolia.com Hebbia – https://www.hebbia.ai Twelve Labs – https://twelvelabs.io Grammarly – https://www.grammarly.com Textio – https://textio.com LitLingo – https://www.litlingo.com Writer – https://writer.com CopyAI – https://www.copy.ai BLANC – https://useblanc.com KUDO – https://kudoway.com…
Apple details AI to help voice assistants recognize hotwords and multilingual speakers
“Siri virtual assistant is used by over 500 million customers worldwide. Employing a graph neural network (GNN)..,the coauthors say they managed to mitigate 87% of false triggers. In a recent study commissioned by the Washington Post, popular smart speakers made by Google and Amazon were 30% less likely to understand non-American accents” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2020/02/03/apple-details-ai-to-help-voice-assistants-recognize-hotwords-and-multilingual-speakers/amp/
Facebook Working On AI-Voice Assistant Technology
“Amazon, with Alexa, had 67% of the market share in the United States in 2018, while Google had about 30% share, according to eMarketer. Few people use voice assistants and speakers for shopping.Voice commerce in 2018 will reach $2.10 billion — just 0.4% of U.S. ecommerce sales, per eMarketer. “We are working to develop voice and…
Alexa, call the police! Smart assistants should come with a ‘moral AI’ to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law, experts say
Here’s a polarizing idea coming out of the University of Bergen. I have trouble believing this is a legitimate suggestion, but it’s a potentially brilliant way to generate some PR for the university. “Smart assistants could soon come with a ‘moral AI’ to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law. That’s the…