Software
Researchers have developed a new voice assistant that allows people with visual impairments to get web content as quickly and as effortlessly as possible from smart speakers and similar devices.
Aug 19, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
A series of privacy missteps in recent months has raised fresh concerns over the future of voice-controlled digital assistants, a growing market seen by some as the next frontier in computing.
Aug 3, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon on Wednesday added the ability to tell its Alexa digital assistant to forget what it has heard in a move that could assuage concerns about Echo devices remembering conversations.
May 30, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
When Google launched its now distinctive digital assistant in 2016, it was already in danger of being an also-ran.
May 6, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A recent research study led by the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Department of Computer Science investigated the neural underpinnings of voice security, and analyzed the differences in neural activities when users ...
Mar 11, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Harman international is a known player in the marketplace for audio systems. This month, Harman is making news over a patent filing proposing how to make virtual reality sounds more realistic.
Engineering
Imagine the panic. Fire alarms blare. Smoke fills the room, and you're left only with the sense of touch, feeling desperately along walls as you try to find the doorway.
Oct 29, 2018
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Consumer & Gadgets
Smart speakers represent a product category that will not disappear any time soon. A combo smart speaker-Internet router is in the news. It is the combo part that has won the company its hoped-for chatter.
Security
Security researchers turned themselves into hackers this month to demo the way a smart speaker could be turned into a spy. The researchers took their story to DefCon 2018. They said they achieved remote eavesdropping. Both ...
Security
Could smartphone motion sensors be used by cybercriminals to record speech? It is a question that many academic and industry researchers are working to answer in order to ward off this kind of malicious use before it happens.
Jun 15, 2018
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