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The latest version of Perficient Digital’s now annual Digital Personal Assistants accuracy study is now out. The study compared responses to about 5,000 queries on seven different devices, which includes Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant and Siri. Google Assistant performed the best at the highest level, but Cortana tried answering the most questions. An …
The results of Loup Ventures annual “smarkt speaker IQ” test has now been published, and the surprise winner is Google Home. According to the results, Apple’s HomePad and Siri bested Alexa and Cortana, which is quite a surprise. 800 questions was asked to the virtual assistants, and then graded based on whether the question was understood …
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For Microsoft, their digital assistant seems to be in a bit of a tough spot. Despite the fact that the assistant has been integrated into Windows 10, which has a user base of 700 million users globally, Cortana has only about 150 million users according to the last official Microsoft figures. In comparison, this is several …
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Microsoft’s vice president in charge of Cortana, Javier Soltero is leaving the company in December. Javier came to Microsoft in 2014 through an acquisition. Soltero, before being placed in charge of Cortana, created update versions of Outlook for iOS and Android. He was then chosen to lead the Cortana team since March. Currently, it’s not clear what made …
Microsoft, with their recent acquisition of Semantic Machines, is bolstering its commitment to conversational artificial intelligence (AI). This news was announced David Ku, Microsoft corporate vice president and chief technology officer for AI and research. According to Microsoft, the Berkeley-based technology company has created a “revolutionary” new approach to building AI. With this move, Microsoft underscores its …
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Last week, Microsoft came out with a version of Cortana for the iPad. Cortana is already out for iPhone, but now, it has been optimized and released for the iPad screens. Not only that, it is reportedly “20 percent faster,” according to the release notes. Compared to Google Assistant and Siri, Cortana can do essentially everything …
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Google is rolling out the Assistant to more devices. Soon, it’ll be available on Android tablets that run Nougat and Marshmallow, as well as smartphones running Lolliop. The folks in the US who are running English will be the first to get access. But, there will be a wide array of Android 5.0 smartphones (Lollipop) getting the …
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Google is now rolling out the Google Assistant to more devices. The announcement coincides with the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. Google Assistant is currently available on the Pixel smartphone, Google Home and its messaging app Allo, and Android Wear. It will also be available soon on Android 6.0 and 7.0 devices. Basically, …
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