Huawei’s HMS for Car Partners with Mercedes Benz
Huawei and Mercedes-Benz S-Class are cooperating to provide car owners with the HMS for Car Huawei smart vehicle solution.
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Huawei and Mercedes-Benz S-Class are cooperating to provide car owners with the HMS for Car Huawei smart vehicle solution.
To deliver human-level voices to its platform’s billions of users while maintaining strict compute efficiency, Facebook AI researchers have deployed a new neural TTS system that works on CPU servers.
No matter whether the conversations commence with “Ok, Google”, “Hello Alexa”, or “Hey Siri”, tech giants Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all granted third-party contractors access to their users’ many interactions with voice assistants.
According to a CIRP study, Amazon Alexa has a commanding 70 percent market share in the US, with rival Google Assistant taking 24 percent. A Market Research Future study predicts the voice assistant market will reach US$7.8 billion by 2023, a compound annual growth rate of almost 40 percent.
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Synced surveyed several “future hotels” that are already applying AI in hospitality, to see how the tech can provide guests with a unique and satisfying experience.
Four years after its founding, human-computer interaction and robotics company Rokid held its first major press conference on June 26 in Hangzhou. Dubbed “Rokid Jungle,” Founder and CEO Misa Zhu quipped that the presser was “a combination of Google IO and Apple WWDC.”
Each spring, tech hobbyists visit Alibaba for its annual open tour. This May 10, Synced toured the company’s acoustic lab, which is dedicated to R&D for its voice assistant Tmall Genie.
Tencent today officially launched its first-ever smart speaker, Tencent Tingting (腾讯听听), which can send or receive voice messages via WeChat.
Human-machine interaction is rapidly evolving. Today, 12% of Chinese users opt for voice input over typing. What does this signal for tomorrow?
Google and Amazon unveiled mini-sized smart speakers Google Home Mini Chalk and Amazon Echo Dot 2, both priced at less than US$50. Virtual assistants can plug into your environment with a natural human-machine voice interface that used to exist only science fiction.
Clearly, digital voice assistants are wising up — how long until they catch up?