Tag: Siri
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Ai Assistant Voice – How To Change Defaults, Gender, Accent Etc
The choice of the voice you hear every day should be a choice you make on setup. It should also be possible to change the voice depending on what you wish to hear all the time.
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AI Today
AI today. What is the current state of our artificial overlords? What are they doing to benefit us currently? Well, Alexa has opened its platform to other parties in order for them to create skills for Alexa to learn. Google meanwhile has been hiring comedians to hopefully improve the way the assistant interacts with humans.…
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Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Have Arrived – What’s New?
The new iPhone 7 is finally here and as expected it has arrived in two forms – the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The iPhone 7 (standard) comes with 4.7-inch display with prices starting from £599 and it will be available in Silver, Gold, Rose Gold, Black (Mat) and Jet Black (Gloss) with seamless…
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Apple WWDC 2016: Sierra, MacOS
Sierra, the next operating system in Apple products future. With Apple WWDC comes news, and in that news the introduction of the new Mac operating system; Sierra. Notably after 15 years of OS X, we will no longer see this present in its title instead, the product will simply be called “macOS.” As developer copies…
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Conversations with Viv – The New Open Source AI From Siri Creator
Later on today at 4:20 PM GMT a Norwegian named Dag Kittlaus will be explaining to the public at the Disrupt NY 2016 conference about his new ‘baby’ named Viv. Dag Kittlaus, created Apple’s Siri back in 2007 while at the Stanford Research institute and went on to work with Apple for a number of…
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New Apple TV Coming Soon
Apple’s Apple TV set top box has had few updates and many many rumors of updates since the last physical product release in 2012. The media giant has always kept their Apple TV cards close to their chest, but this time around Apple is promising a much more modern ‘experience’ as the company puts it…
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Amazon Echo to Take Device Management to New Uncharted Territory?
Up until today, this clever gadget was only available by personal invite from Amazon. Today, Amazon has announced that it can now be purchased by anyone and the devices are shipping out for $180 as of July 14 2015. “We’re excited to get Echo into the hands of even more customers and continue to invent…
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New Apple TV will support 4K!
Apple TV has been increasing in popularity and in March, at the “spring forward” event, it was revealed that there was a new one about to be released that will support 4K resolution. Selling for a retail price of $69 (or £46) it’s actually cheaper than the previous variations. No doubt in an attempt to…
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Microsoft’s Cortana Is Coming To iOS And Android
As I’m sure you’ll be aware, Cortana is a “digital assistant” similar to Apple’s Siri which was first demonstrated at Microsoft’s BUILD Developer Conference in San Francisco last April. The digital assistant is currently still in Beta and is available exclusively to all Windows Phone 8.1 devices and also Microsoft’s Band wearable device. Microsoft also…
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Is An Advanced Siri Coming to Mac?
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Apple has a new patent out, this time detailing an augmented version of Siri, the digital assistant, for the Mac. Apple fans have long expected Siri to make her appearance on the Mac, but sadly thus far only the voice recognition software, which is used for dictating your words to a word processor, has made…
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Cortana UK Version May Have English Voice
Digital assistants are just one of the fascinating and incredibly useful gadgets that make up the selection of up and coming features soon to be found on every smartphone. In the UK however, options are very basic, with Apple’s Siri the most obvious and most prominent choice for fans of cutting edge tech. However, Microsoft’s…
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iOS 8 announced by Apple at WWDC – but what’s actually different?
iOS 8 has been announced but what is actually going to be any different? Is it a complete rework like iOS 7 was or is it just a bit of an update with a new iOS name purely so that we want to invest in new Apple products like the iPhone 6 that we’re hoping…