voice assistant

Machine learning firm to make Cortana and Azure Bot Services better at chatting

Developers get more tools to build AI in the cloud and at the edge, plus Microsoft 365 customisation

Workplace customers want less collaboration and more automation

A policing app will send the latest news and pictures of criminals to Amazon Alexa-enabled devices

The service will end on 19 January, although some features will continue through M Suggestions

Voice will be the primary way of interacting with IT systems, predicts CTO Werner Vogels

Digital assistant will use voice commands to perform common tasks in meetings

Voice search has been revealed as one of Gartner’s top tech trends of 2017, but what is it and why will it become so big?

Smartphone users will also rely on their voice and gestures to control their device

The organisation includes Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, but Elon Musk and Apple are both absent

Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer want to revolutionise how we interact with online services

Many view AI as being a knife’s edge away from creepy and, potentially, dangerous. But there is a brighter side…

The startup allows for image processing on-device, without exposing any user data

Tech giant wants to make Siri better than Cortana and Google Now

Facebook launched 'M', its own human-powered personal assistant

The service would form part of the company's iCloud service, but would be powered by Siri

Cortana, Microsoft’s ‘personal assistant’ software, will reportedly be available on Apple and Android

Social network hopes Wit.ai will help it close ground on Siri and Cortana

Cortana, Microsoft’s personal voice assistant for Windows Phone 8.1, due to launch this fortnight

BlackBerry 10.3 OS to offer users access to voice-activated assistant

Consumer electronics giant bolsters voice capabilities with recent purchase.