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Facebook working on voice assistant to rival Amazon’s Alexa

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa, Apple Inc’s Siri and Alphabet Inc’s Google Assistant. “We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and…(read more...)

Skype is Dropping Cortana Bot While Promoting Alexa

Cnet reported last week that Skype is discontinuing its integrated Cortana bot on April 30th, 2019, and is now promoting Amazon Alexa voice assistant integration. OnMSFT is reporting that Skype users have been seeing promotional offerings of 200 free minutes when they link their Skype and Amazon accounts. Microsoft and Amazon announced Skype…(read more...)

Amazon’s Alexa for Business

Amazon’s Alexa for Business Blueprints lets employees make custom voice apps Use Alexa in your place of work? There’s cause for minor celebration: Today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of dozens of preconfigured templates for Amazon’s intelligent assistant that let customers create and publish private…(read more...)