Microsoft buys Canadian deep-learning startup Maluuba to advance in natural-language processing Microsoft has agreed to acquire Maluuba, a Montreal-based company that uses deep learning to develop natural-language understanding, especially question-answering and… Read More
Review: Amazon’s 4K Fire TV is blazing fast, but Alexa on the big screen is a letdown We’re spoiled with artificially intelligent companions today. It started with our phones, which were once used for talking to others… Read More
The next battleground for Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google: Artificial Intelligence Digital personal assistants today can help you send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings or find answers from the… Read More
Amazon warms up its voice as smartphone launch nears, with help from past deals Now that Amazon has rolled out two back-to-back hardware products with voice recognition software, we can expect more as the… Read More
Microsoft lets devs use Bing speech recognition in Windows 8 apps Windows developers have a new tool up their sleeves for letting users talk to their apps. First spotted by Mary… Read More
Apple building speech team in Boston, Nuance’s backyard Apple isn’t known for putting engineers in far-flung offices. The company’s secretive nature tends to lend itself to keeping its… Read More
Watch out, Siri: Jeannie wants to be your iPhone conversation partner With the advent of voice assistants like Siri, we’re talking to our computers more than ever. But Siri, Google Now,… Read More
New Google Glass video shows why search is the killer app on the high-tech specs Google has sent out its Glass hardware to 10,000 or so developers in hopes that they’ll run wild and create awesome… Read More
Nuance combines Swype with Dragon Dictation, looks for a few good ninjas to test it out You’ve got to give the Nuance folks some credit for creativity. The company today unveiled a new update for Swype… Read More
