Sad, happy or angry: What would happen if Alexa could read your mood, offer shopping tips?

If Amazon’s Alexa thinks you sound sad, should it suggest that you buy a gallon of ice cream? Full Story: The Economic Times

Best Voice Activated Devices for the Office

A voice-activated device uses speech recognition to understand spoken commands and answer questions, and typically text to speech to play a reply. Full Story: Small Business Trends

Should Alexa Read Our Moods?

The time to debate the power of voice technology is now. (Before Alexa starts suggesting comfort foods.) Full Story: The New York Times

Klick Research: People Using Voice Technology for Medication Info Still Get the Most Accurate Results From Google Assistant

Siri and Alexa improve search comprehension rates, suggesting enhanced AI over the past two years, but still lag behind Google as more people turn to voice assistants during pandemic. Full Story: My TechDecisions

It Is Time For Businesses to Listen Up: How Voice-Messaging Is Changing Customer Experience

Voice messaging and audio are becoming key features for messaging applications, but what does the future hold for them? Full Story: Business 2 Community

Artificial intelligence can improve patient management at the time of pandemic: The role of voice technology

Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven voice technology deployed on mobile phones and smart speakers has a potential to improve patient management and organizational workflow. Full Story: DocWire News

Sensory’s new voice assistants do not sacrifice your privacy or send data to the cloud

If you have held off buying any voice assistant as you are worried about them listening to far more than they let on, then you can finally enjoy your own custom voice assistant with the level of privacy you want. Full Story: ZDNet

How to take advantage of voice optimisation, search and marketing

Here at PinPoint Media we like to have our finger firmly on the pulse, which is why we are starting to use voice more and more for our clients and ourselves. Full Story: The Drum

Google Assistant Gets ‘Your Apps’ Settings Menu, More Colourful UI in The Works: Reports

Google Assistant is said to be getting a new ‘Your apps’ settings menu allowing users to choose from two action preferences, allowing users to customise how the voice assistant interacts with each app. Full Story: Gadgets 360

Ford’s adding Amazon’s Alexa to 700,000 vehicles this year

Ford said a deeper partnership with Amazon may even bring unique Alexa skills for future cars from the automaker. Full Story: CNET