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La croissance des skills d'Alexa montre des signes de ralentissement , avec une comparaison par pays du nombre de skills développées : Les US sont devant, viennent ensuite UK et Inde. Ces données ne concernent pas les données d'usage des skills par jour. La croissance des skills ne dit pas une augmentation de la valeur d'usage de ces skills. Ces données peuvent montrer l'enthousiasme des développeurs pour cette av.

"Multilingual mode is aimed specifically at bilingual homes where two languages are frequently used at the same time. Until now, Alexa could only understand and speak one language at a time, and switching to another language requires adjusting the settings in the Alexa app. In multilingual mode, Alexa can respond to a question in the language it is asked. The setting comes in pairs based on country. For now, it is limited to English and Spanish in the U.S., English and French in Canada, and English and Hindi in India. More languages are currently in the works, according to Amazon."

www.oto.ai "La société américaine fondée par l'entrepreneur suisse Teo Borschberg vient de lever 2,2 millions de dollars. Son service se présente comme un «coach» des employés travaillant dans des centres d'appels."

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"At January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a boost to the artificial intelligence (AI) that allows smart speakers like the Echo, Google Home, and Apple Homepod to reliably recognize everyday sounds-and to act on them-is set to lend the devices powerful new capabilities, including the ability to recognize your favorite brands from the noises they make." "Are such activities an invasion of your "soundspace"? Schaub thinks so. He predicts, "People will find the detection of what kind of soft drink they are having, based on the sound of opening the can or bottle, very creepy." "That people are unaware their smart speakers could record activity after the device's wake word is uttered is no surprise to Schaub and his fellow researchers. Their survey of smart speaker users showed that consumer rationalizations for installing smart speakers showed "an incomplete understanding of privacy risks" and that they had a misplaced "trust relationship" with the smart speaker companies. Most users, the researchers said, seemed resigned to losing their privacy and accepted it as a cost of using the technology." "Still, voice assistant makers should harbor no illusions that audio data is any less worthy of protection than other forms of data, says a spokesman for the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in London, which drew up of many of the measures in the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which companies the world over now have to comply with if they want to sell into Britain or Europe."

"The French version of Alexa was beta tested with Amazon employees in its fulfillment centers and corporate office locations. These conversations helped Alexa understand the nuances of French accents by region, the kind of questions that were commonly asked (for example, cooking and soccer came up an awful lot), and expressions for commonly requested tasks like setting a timer or an alarm."

"We need some new breakthroughs that fundamentally change the rotten trade-off we now make between privacy and AI. The good news is that there's a growing research effort in what's called "privacy-preserving" machine learning. Academics are trying to develop algorithms that can operate on encrypted data, which means they wouldn't need to access anyone's data directly. Other researchers are figuring out ways to combine insights from different machine-­learning models without needing to merge all their underlying data. Companies like Apple, ­Google, and Microsoft already have teams working on such projects."

"Wikidata, an obscure sister project to Wikipedia, aims to (eventually) represent everything in the universe in a way computers can understand. Maintained by an army of volunteers, the database has come to serve an essential yet mostly unheralded purpose as AI and voice recognition expand to every corner of digital life. "Language depends on knowing a lot of common sense, which computers don't have access to," says Denny Vrandečić, who founded Wikidata in 2012. A programmer and regular Wikipedia editor, Vrandečić saw the need for a place where humans and bots could share knowledge on more equal terms."

"This episode is all about U.S. smart speaker adoption data and trends and what it tells us about the future of voice assistant use worldwide. Jeff McMahon (CEO Voicify), Jason Fields (Chief Strategy Officer Voicify), and Ava Mutchler (Voicebot) join host Bret Kinsella discussing data from the recent 2019 U.S. Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report. Topics include the smart speaker rate of adoption, killer app use cases, device market share, changes from 2018, and voice app discovery challenges and solutions. "

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"In a blog post this morning, Amazon details acoustic fingerprinting, a technique Alexa AI research scientists at the Seattle company use to "teach" Alexa what individual instances of its name sound like, so that the assistant can ignore them. The work is applied on the fly to detect when multiple Alexa-enabled devices around the globe hear the same command at roughly the same time - which Mike Rodehorst, machine learning scientist at Amazon's Alexa Speech division, says is needed to prevent Alexa from responding to pranks, references to people named Alexa, and other TV mentions Amazon isn't made aware of in advance."

"Chinese tech giant Alibaba took the wraps off a voice-activated mirror, dubbed Tmall Genie Queen [...]" "The device also offers various information services such as weather forecasts, beauty tips, and allows users to control other devices such as air conditioning units with voice commands. Voiceprint recognition technology ensures that only authorized users can place orders, according to Alibaba."

"Last summer, Voicebot speculated that consumer robots likely had suffered from the rapid adoption of smart speakers. Many of the core functions that consumer robots sought to provide such as access to information, entertaining children, and even communications were already features available through smart speakers, many of which were frequently sold at discounts below $30. The quick rise of smart speakers meant that consumer robots needed different capabilities to become relevant."

"Google started an unusual artificial intelligence experiment this month. If you instruct its Siri-style virtual assistant to "talk like a Legend," it will speak in a simulacrum of the smooth sound of Grammy-winning crooner John Legend. The singer helped demonstrate a promising, but contentious, use case for AI. Software that can impersonate people's voices can make computers more fun to talk with, but in the wrong hands might be used to make so-called "deepfakes" intended to deceive. How good is voice cloning technology now? Google's project provides a snapshot."

"Selon une étude du cabinet d'analyse Juniper Research, 2,5 milliards d'assistants vocaux étaient utilisés fin 2018. Ils devraient être 8 milliards d'ici 2023. Le « marché de la voix », tel qu'on le nomme désormais, semble donc promis à un grand avenir. Des enceintes connectées aux smart TV en passant par les objets connectés, nos voix seront de plus en plus sollicitées pour interagir avec les technologies. Certains prédisent même un recul substantiel du tactile au profit du vocal. Si l'avenir des interactions humain-machine est à la voix, il semble nécessaire de questionner dès maintenant ce phénomène technique et, en particulier, les implications d'une de ses caractéristiques majeures : sa capacité à plonger l'artefact dans une nouvelle forme d'oubli. J'en propose ici quelques éléments d'analyse débouchant sur deux idées éthico-politiques permettant de contrer les effets potentiellement délétères de l'occultation technique."

"Amazon announced that it has expanded the option to monetize Alexa skills to Japan late last week. Japan will be only the second country, after the U.S., to allow developers to add in-skill purchasing as an Alexa skill feature."

"Think of this as voice assistive technology as opposed to a voice assistant technology. Voice Control is a good name for it. The man employs voice to navigate a user experience originally designed for visual interaction." "There will be more multimodal interaction that joins voice and visual navigation over the next few years. Apple is already demonstrating a model that can work from both an architecture and user experience standpoint." > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=64&v=aqoXFCCTfm4