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Users of Amazon’s voice assistant will soon be able to talk to Alexa in Hindi. Amazon announced today that it has added a Hindi voice model to its Alexa Skills Kit for developers. Alexa developers can also update their existing published skills in India for Hindi. Amazon first revealed that it would add fluent Hindi […] Continue reading Amazon adds Hindi to the Alexa Skills Kit
Google is under fire after a report found that Google Home and Google Assistant records user audio, even when no wake-up word is used. Continue reading Google Home Silently Captures Recordings of Domestic Violence and More
Cruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to …read more
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Last year, Amazon announced a new initiative, Alexa for Business, designed to introduce its voice assistant technology and Echo devices into a corporate setting. Today, it’s giving the platform a big upgrade by opening it up to device makers who are building their own solutions that have Alexa built in. The change came about based […] Continue reading Alexa for Business opens up to third-party device makers
The tricky Cortana flaw, CVE-2018-8253, was addressed by Microsoft during Patch Tuesday. Continue reading Microsoft Cortana Flaw Allows Web Browsing on Locked PCs
The future of consumer electronics is electronic voice assistants, at least that’s what the manufacturers are telling us. Everything from Alexas to Google Homes to Siris are invading our lives, and if predictions hold, your next new car might just have a voice assistant in it. It’s just a good thing we have enough samples of Majel Barrett’s voice for a quality virtual assistant.
For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking all about voice interfaces. There are hundreds of Alexa and Google Home hacks around, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. What else can …read more
Security researchers have now found new ways to exploit voice recognition weaknesses in your favorite home device: smart assistants. You may want to listen in.
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After an Alexa speaker recorded and shared a private conversation, the tech community is casting a wary eye on voice assistant privacy issues. Continue reading Alexa Eavesdropping Flub Re-Sparks Voice Assistant Privacy Debate
You may think your Windows 10 computer is locked, but is it really? Israeli researchers Tal Be’ery and Amichai Shulman have discovered a way of just using voice commands to make locked Windows 10 computers visit a website under the control of mal… Continue reading Windows 10 flaw allowed attackers to open malicious websites… even if your PC was locked
Misuse of the technology is going to rise right along with the popularity of voice apps, says a recent study.
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