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Amazon’s Alexa is Now “Hands-Free” on All Windows 10 PCs
Optional Push-to-Talk Still Available Amazon launched their Alexa app for Windows 10 back in November. Now, the latest update finally enables a completely hands-free experience. By simply issuing the wakeword “Alexa”, users can now issue commands to their PC like they would on an Amazon device. This of course, requires…
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South Park Trolls Voice Enabled Devices in Season Premiere
South Park is back for their 21st season and they even threw in some bonus trolling on the premiere episode. The episode entitled “White People Renovating Houses” had a B-storyline featuring voice enabled devices. Which tied into the job displacement crisis plot of the episode’s A-storyline. Throughout the episode, the…
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Amazon Alexa Smashing Competition with 15,000 ‘Skills’
Home voice activated hubs are getting more in vogue every passing week. Although not the leader like Google, Amazon has never been one to shy away from innovation are currently leading the way with their Alexa. They just keep adding and adding and at present has ‘15,000’ unique ‘skills’. Massively…
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Siri Can Now Play a Helpful Role in Controlling Your Smart Homes
Apple seems to be focusing on making you upgrade your homes as well as your gadgets this year. After it first announced a release date for the first smart home devices, the company is now focusing on getting their personal assistant, Siri, to help you out inside your smart homes.…
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Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul Turning on Xbox One Console via TV Advert
The new Xbox One advert which features Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul is causing headaches for some Xbox One users, just as the actor says “Xbox On” at the start of the advert, the voice command turns on the Xbox One in the advert, but it’s also turning on Xbox One…
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Kickstarter Projects Aims To Make Voice-Controlled Houses a Reality
There are all sorts of smart devices on the market, giving users the ability to control just about anything in your house and even your car, at least to some extent. However, in most cases, the user experience is not as satisfying as it should be when using the latter…
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Xbox One Update Scheduled For February 11, To Bring Support for USB Keyboard
When Microsoft launched the Xbox in November last year, Microsoft’s next-gen console performed better than expected. The company saw 3.9 million units being shipped to retail stores all around the world. Now, Microsoft can start improving it, and the changes are likely to be seen sooner than expected. The Xbox…
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‘Intel Jarvis’ To Be Intel’s Offline Voice Recognition Earpiece, Ironman Suit On?
Both voice recognition and personal assistants from Apple and Google, namely Siri and Google’s Voice Search, require an active internet connectivity to be ‘usable’. Each voice command needs to go through to Apple or respectively Google’s servers to be processed, and afterwards come up with what you asked. And voice…
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Motorola Touchless Control App Can Unlock Your Phone By Speaking Out Your PIN
Have you ever wanted a device that will listen to you even when it is locked? There are times when your phone’s voice commands are useless as you still have to unlock your device before using them, and that is not at all possible if you are doing something that…
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