Tag: Voice
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Amazon Echo Now for Sale in UK with £50 Off for Prime Members
Amazon’s own voice-enabled, cloud-connected speaker named Amazon Echo is now available to buy in the UK. For £149.99 Amazon Echo stands proud at nine inches tall and comes with the online retailer/gadget developer’s own answer to Siri – a voice activated software called Alexa. As well as playing your music tracks from Prime Music as…
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Pebble Core Will Now Support Amazon Alexa
The people at Pebble have announced a great addition to the new Pebble Core – the activity focused gadget which was just launched as a project over on Kickstarter. The keyring-sized, independently functioning 3G wearable just got even more appealing thanks to the integration of Amazon Alexa. Alexa was initially a signature feature of the…
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HSBC To Roll Out Biometric Mobile Banking
Mobile phone systems are becoming increasingly more science fiction, as new gadgets and gizmos give us the ability to control them in even more exciting ways. This time it’s HSBC’s mobile app which will now allow users to register their online banking transactions via fingerprints and voice recognition. SEE ALSO: BBC Three Moves to…
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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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Tesco Self-Checkout Voice Swapped from ‘Irritating’ Female to ‘Friendlier’ Male
UK supermarket chain Tesco has begun replacing the female voice used on its self-service checkouts with a male voice sparking a sexism row on Twitter. The female voice, recently identified as former Eastenders actress Helena Breck, has been used in Tesco stores at the self checkout for over ten years now and is infamous for…
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Turning up voice in Mercedes Benz Sat Nav
We have a couple of Mercedes Cars on our fleet and generally the Mercedes Benz Sat Nav is easy to use. Our users have asked the same question. How do I make the voice louder or softer telling me the directions? Well the answer is simple. You can turn the voice up or down ONLY…