Tech Xplore - voice

Facebook's new Portal makes good video calls but still has issues

A year ago, Facebook surprised a lot of people in tech (and elsewhere) by releasing a video chat device for the home.

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Say thank you and please: Should you be polite with Alexa and the Google Assistant?

Jeremy Bloom has a polite family. But after a few frustratingly failed attempts in which Bloom politely asked Alexa to turn down the volume at dinner time, he shouted instead, "Alexa, zip it."

Oct 14, 2019

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Five reasons to download MacOS Catalina

If it's October, it's time once again for a new computer operating system upgrade from Apple, this year called macOS Catalina.

Oct 08, 2019

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Google rolls out updated privacy tools for YouTube, Maps

Google is rolling out more tools for users to control their privacy settings.

Oct 02, 2019

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Code War: Myanmar's final digital battle ends

Accessing everything from Wikipedia to Google Maps in Myanmar is about to get a lot easier when it finally adopts the universal code underpinning phone and online communication next week.

Sep 27, 2019

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McDonald's enlists Alexa and Google to help with its hiring

Want a job at McDonald's? Just ask your smartphone.

Sep 25, 2019

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Google vows to do more to protect your voice data

Google came under fire after media reports revealed that its contractors listened to customer audio recordings captured by the company's virtual assistant this year.

Sep 24, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence has a gender bias problem—just ask Siri

Suggest to Samsung's Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby "Let's talk dirty", and the female voice will respond with a honeyed accent: "I don't want to end up on Santa's naughty list."

Sep 23, 2019

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That muffled voice on the other side of the McDonald's drive-thru could be replaced by a robot

McDonald's on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a voice technology company to help speed up ordering at the drive thru, the latest in a series of high-tech investments by the fast-food chain as it strives to improve wait ...

Sep 11, 2019

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GM hires Google to make infotainment system more like phones

General Motors is hiring Google to run key parts of its dashboard infotainment system, admitting that the tech firm can do a better job.

Sep 05, 2019

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US wants woman accused in Capital One hack to stay locked up

A woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations is a flight risk, a threat and should be kept locked up until her trial, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents filed ahead of a Friday detention ...

Aug 23, 2019

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Facebook listened to users' conversations: report

Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe snippets of users' conversations, US media reported on Tuesday, amid heightened scrutiny of the social network's data collection practices.

Aug 14, 2019

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Orlando publisher adopts realistic voice technology

An Orlando digital publisher has adopted technology distributed by Amazon that makes the stilted robotic voices often associated with text-to-speech services sound more natural.

Aug 07, 2019

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Microsoft says it 'listens' to conversations only with permission

Microsoft said Wednesday its contractors listen to conversations to hone voice translation features offered by Skype and its digital assistant Cortana, but only when obtaining user permission.

Aug 07, 2019

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Military researchers see non-lethal role for talking lasers

Say what? Laser plasma balls that can talk? The Pentagon? How, and for what? The answer is that instead of beaming a flashing light or shouting over a loudspeaker to keep people away from sensitive areas, new technology is ...

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