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Alexa is going to become a Kinect replacement for Xbox One. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17826718/microsoft-xbox-one-alexa-features-support-voice-control We saw the news about voice interface in VR games before, but consoles like Xbox are brand new field for voice.

Have you ever seen how people beg in China? You just need to scan the QR code and choose the amount of money you want to transfer. Excuses like "I don't have cash" don't work anymore😐

Samsung is opening up Bixby to third-party developers this November https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/samsung-bixby-software-developers-kit-sdk.html btw, a month ago Samsung announced their first home speaker powered by Bixby. https://thenextweb.com/tech/2018/08/09/samsung-debuts-its-funky-galaxy-home-bixby-powered-speaker/

Would you buy Google Assistant for $2000? Or maybe Alexa for $400? Here are two articles about interesting collaboration Amazon and Google with producers of musical equipment Google https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/bang-olufsens-pricey-beosound-line-gets-google-assistant/ Amazon https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/28/17790932/bose-home-speaker-500-soundbar-700-announced-pricing-features

Have you seen this cute puppy? I'm sure, pretty soon this nice animals like Aibo will receive lots of features characteristic to voice assistants and will become very popular within the next 5 years. https://tcrn.ch/2Lo8IUD

A few weeks ago, our friend Julian from CognitionX shared his research in chatbots and voice bots market. Highly recommend to read it🤓 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kfo-w7BlE0a0AYAZ7Lm_qNJv_UNkRLzc/view

Today we decided to make a small digest of what happened for the last two days. Facebook is on fire! FB decided to show the world a piece of information regarding its own speech recognition feature "Aloha" for Facebook and Messenger apps: https://voicebot.ai/2018/08/21/first-sighting-of-the-facebook-aloha-voice-assistant-appears-in-messenger-along-with-voice-messaging-in-instagram/ Maybe new Alexa competitor? What do you think? Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’😇 Just say "Hey Google, tell me something good" to receive your daily dose of stories about people who are solving real-life problems: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/hey-google-tell-me-something-good/ And one more news related to Facebook: Facebook’s advertising platform permits discrimination by removing 5,000 options that can be used to exclude certain religious and ethnic minority groups: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/facebook-is-removing-over-5000-ad-targeting-options-to-prevent-discriminatory-ads/

Hot news🔥🔥🔥 Slack just raised $427 million in their new round and now it worth more than 7 billion! https://www.producthunt.com/news/315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h?utm_source=browser_notification&utm_medium=browser_notification&utm_campaign=315-slack-raises-a-427-million-series-h

Everyone makes mistakes, even big companies. Today YC by mistake sent acceptances to everyone who applied to their Startup School, even if they weren't selected for the program. To cover this fault, they opened the program for everyone who applied. What lesson should we learn? Be careful when you make a broadcast to your users, the other way it can be a pretty expensive mistake!

Have you ever wondered how to pick a great skill invocation name? Here you go 🙂 https://medium.com/storyline-blog/how-to-pick-a-skill-invocation-name-c12037b29ebb

We have awesome news 💪 Amazon and Microsoft just released an update for their voice assistants. Now you can speak with Alexa on a Windows 10 PC, you just need to say "Cortana, open Alexa" This is opening a whole new market for Alexa. Looking forward what is going to be next🤓 https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/15/alexa-cortana-public-preview/