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On Tuesday, top executives from Amazon took the stage at Spring Studios in New York City to share updates on the company's devices and services. Unsurprisingly, those updates centered around ...

For a long time, talking to computers was an exercise in futility — a plaintive struggle to get voice recognition software to understand the difference between "Call Dad" and "Call dog." But it seems ...

Companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft have all vied for control over the phones we carry in our pockets, the computers at our desks, and even the watches on our wrists. But over the ...

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Amazon surprised many analysts and competitors with its Alexa cloud-based voice assistant, and the company seems determined to help partners pack the tech into every product imaginable. Alexa has a ...

The Amazon Echo voice-activated virtual assistant (and monophonic audio speaker) was initially offered on an invite-only basis beginning in the fall of 2014, at $99.99 for Prime members (aka “guinea ...