9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Siri, Alexa and Other Virtual Assistants Put to the Test
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2017 · Virtual assistants from tech behemoths including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are graded on their abilities to actually be of assistance.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Executive Assistants for Everyone
MIT Sloan Management Review
4 min read · From 2017 · Digital assistants are taking over repetitive tasks, leaving managers free to manage.
Nielsen Norman Group
Intelligent Assistants Have Poor Usability: A User Study of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri
Nielsen Norman Group
20+ min read · From 2018 · Both voice-only and screen-based intelligent assistants work well only for very limited, simple queries that have fairly simple, short answers.
raconteur.net
A day in the life of AI
raconteur.net
1 min read · 2020-12-13 · From chatbots and digital assistants to facial recognition or...
sketch.com
Introducing Assistants — a helping hand for your designs
sketch.com
3 min read · 2020-08-12 · Assistants make collaboration easier and the design process more efficient.
HackerNoon
Ultimate Guide to Voice Assistants
HackerNoon
7 min read · From 2017 · It will come as no surprise to those of you reading this (thanks!), that the interest and applications of ‘Voice-Assistants’ is growing…
Vulture
Scott Rudin, As Told by His Assistants
Vulture
20+ min read · Apr 23rd · A portrait of a toxic workplace.
zirtual.com
Zirtual ? US-based Virtual Assistants for Busy People.
zirtual.com
1 min read · From 2016 · Zirtual - Virtual Assistants for Busy Startups
O'Reilly Media
The next generation of AI assistants in enterprise
O'Reilly Media
6 min read · From 2018 · Chatbots are just the first step in the journey to achieve true AI assistants and autonomous organizations.
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TNW
How gendered voice assistants are hurting as they help
TNW
3 min read · Sep 8th · Why do the companies developing, marketing, and selling virtual assistants tend to label their devices as women? And what does this mean for humans?
TechCrunch
AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding
TechCrunch
3 min read · Aug 26th · “Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you…
The Washington Post
Perspective | Big Tech’s not-so-secret plan to monopolize your home
The Washington Post
Sep 29th · Google made smart speakers dumber by stopping Sonos from selling one that lets you talk to all the voice assistants at once
The Washington Post
Lawsuits say Siri and Google are listening, even when they’re not supposed to
The Washington Post
Sep 3rd · The lawsuits against Google and Apple allege voice assistants are turning on when not activated and using the information for marketing.
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Recode
The future of voice assistants like Alexa and Siri isn’t just in homes — it’s in cars
Recode
2 min read · From 2019 · Voice assistants are more habit-forming in cars than on smartphones.
Moz
Will Intelligent Personal Assistants Replace Websites?
Moz
From 2016 · In the way websites once replaced phones, will intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Cortana soon replace websites? Tom Anthony examines 4 trends that are contributing to the IPA takeover and has some advice on how you can keep up.
Forbes
The Seven Patterns Of AI
Forbes
6 min read · From 2019 · From autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics applications, facial recognition, to chatbots, virtual assistants, cognitive automation, and fraud detection, the use cases for AI are many.
CIO.com
Virtual assistants, chatbots poised for mass adoption in 2017
CIO.com
5 min read · From 2017 · Enterprises will continue to experiment with virtual assistants and chatbots in 2017 as they look to balance better customer service with operational efficiency.
The Wall Street Journal
Alexa, Siri, Cortana: The Problem With All-Female Digital Assistants
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · From 2017 · The virtual assistants popping up in our lives sound overwhelmingly female. Here’s the problem with that.
MIT Technology Review
AI voice actors sound more human than ever—and they’re ready to hire
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · Jul 9th · A new wave of startups are using deep learning to build synthetic voice actors for digital assistants, video-game characters, and corporate videos.
Guardian Tech
'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?'
Guardian Tech
10 min read · From 2019 · There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
medicalfuturist.com
Chatbots Will Serve As Health Assistants
medicalfuturist.com
10 min read · From 2017 · Chatbots started to appear in healthcare as intelligent personal assistants for patients as well as medical professionals.
SearchEngineJournal®
33% of People Are Now Using Voice Assistants Regularly
SearchEngineJournal®
1 min read · From 2019 · In a new report, eMarketer declares the use of voice assistants has reached a “critical mass.”
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