"Apple semble vouloir augmenter la vitesse à laquelle Siri est implémentée dans des produits tiers. Du moins, c'est ce qu'il semblerait, étant donné son acquisition de la société Pullstring. Ce dernier participe à la création et à la conception d'applications vocales pour les produits physiques. "

"Avec la démocratisation des assistants vocaux, la question du branding sonore refait surface. Mastercard s'accorde à la tendance et dévoile à l'occasion de la semaine des GRAMMY Awards, une pimpante signature mélodique." "Si Mastercard prend ce virage, c'est en parti lié au développement du vocal. Le communiqué de l'annonce souligne que « le shopping vocal va générer 40 milliards de dollars d'ici à 2021« , qu'il est donc "important de connecter les marques avec les consommateurs de manière différente".

carte interactive des 24 émotions : https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/vocs/map.html#

"Alexa: A User's Guide"

[...] « ça ouvre de superbes opportunités aux aveugles, on est à égalité avec les voyants devant Google Home »[...]

"Live Transcribe is an app that automatically transcribes speech in near-real time, allowing people to communicate in situations where they might not otherwise be able to."

"With the introduction of smart assistants that can interact with users, interactive fiction has been an intriguing possibility for game developers and publishers."

"Hospitals are exploring new uses in intensive care units and surgical recovery rooms, and contemplating a future in which Alexa, or another voice avatar, becomes a virtual member of the medical team - monitoring doctor-patient interactions, suggesting treatment approaches, or even alerting caregivers to voice changes that could be an early warning of a health emergency."

"La page web de Nest a ainsi rajouté la mention de la présence d'un microphone dans son appareil après avoir annoncé le 4 Février que son Nest Secure allait pouvoir se transformer en assistant vocal. Pourquoi ne pas mentionner ce micro alors que Google savait évidemment qu'il existait ? Pourquoi ne pas lister exactement la totalité des fonctions de son appareils ? La réponse est simple, pour éviter d'inquiéter "inutilement" les utilisateurs et donc maximiser les ventes."

"Manufacturers are already looking at ways to protect voice-activated devices. For example, ultrasound attacks could be stymied through detecting frequency alterations in received signals. It would be a nice idea to train all smart devices to recognize their owner's voice, although having already tested this on its own system, Google warns that such security can be fooled by a voice recording or a decent impersonation."

"l'assistant vocal " Soline " pour aider les personnes à mobilité réduite à contrôler leur environnement.

"Do-it-yourself artificial intelligence" by Google

"Users of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant conceptualize them in one of 3 ways: an interface, a personal assistant, or a brain. Frequent users are less likely to push the interaction limits of these AI systems than new users."

8 feminist personal intelligent assistant prototypes Designing a Feminist Alexa Seminar UAL Creative Computing Institute and Feminist Internet > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQyKdC37M20&t=876s

"Scotland Yard is developing new technology that would allow victims of crime to use voice-activated personal assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant, to contact the police. Under plans being drawn up by Britain's largest force, people would simply have to shout for help - and any compatible in-range technology would notify the police. "

"[...] neuroscientists from Columbia University recently made a major advancement toward this futuristic goal, successfully translating brain waves into intelligible speech for the first time." "Rather than directly tracking thoughts to produce speech, the researchers recorded neurological patterns generated by test subjects listening to others speak. These brain waves were fed into a vocoder-an artificial intelligence algorithm that synthesizes speech-and then converted into comprehensible, albeit robotic-sounding, speech mirroring the phrases heard by participants." article scientifique : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-37359-z

"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."