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Cloud-based AI dominates the headlines, but responsive and private interaction lies at the edge. This blog post shows how to build a fully offline, real-time voice assistant using the Arm-based NVIDIA ...

Experimental Android voice assistant for Home Assistant that uses the ESPHome protocol. Intended for turning your existing Android wall panel or similar into a local voice assistant for controlling ...

"It didn't sound like AI at all. My mum was in the other room. We thought it was just another person. We just couldn't believe it," she says. The call lasted about five minutes, and at the end, ...

Many people buy a sleek smart speaker and end up using it for just three things: checking the weather, playing music, and setting kitchen timers. That mismatch is absurd because this device was never ...

After disrupting nearly every white-collar job, AI is coming for a new career: fast-food restaurant manager. Burger King is debuting a new AI assistant, and is putting a voice AI directly into its ...

Caterpillar has entered the AI revolution with in-cab voice assistance for construction equipment operators. Like Siri or Alexa, the operator need only say, “Hey, Cat” and a command. The system can ...

Google Home is adding premade voice assistant actions that simplify automation setup inside the app. Users can now quickly trigger tasks like weather updates or music. The update also adds an option ...

Google Home is getting a set of new premade voice assistant actions. Google calls them pre-defined actions, but the point is, you can skip a lot of the busywork that makes actions in automations a ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Speechify today announced a major expansion of its platform into a full AI Assistant and productivity system designed for people who prefer to interact ...

Update, 2:09 p.m. ET: Speechify also launched a ChatGPT integration today. See new details below. Speechify’s AI Voice Assistant can now sound like celebrities, including Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, ...

Google will pay $68 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging its voice assistant secretly recorded users’ private conversations and shared the data with advertisers. Filed on Friday in a ...