Microsoft has rolled out new features for its Cortana virtual assistant app, including the ability to track evening activities, track important flights and even recommend nearby concerts. Cortana probably still is… Read more »
Microsoft is supposedly turning the fictional virtual assistant from its Halo games into an an actual virtual assistant that Windows users can engage with across phone, PC and Xbox platforms. Read more »
Tempo adds Company Cards to its contextual calendar, arming you with factoids and news before you enter a meeting. It’s not a huge feature, but Tempo says it’s a key step… Read more »
Ad network Widespace is debuting Nuance’s first interactive voice ads on two Swedish mobile apps. Instead of just passively viewing advertising on your phone, you can now ask an ad a… Read more »
Tempo’s quest to build the industry’s most contextually aware smartphone calendar got a $10 million boost. According to CEO Raj Singh, though, the calendar is just a proxy for its much… Read more »
Sherpa is trying to build a more flexible virtual assistant technology that can easily adapted for new tasks. To that end it has developed its own conceptual meta-language which it uses… Read more »
With a backlog of well over 100,000 registrants, Tempo is far more popular than it ever anticipated. The company has been forced to halt new activations to give its servers some… Read more »
Tempo AI is the latest startup to emerge from research institute SRI International, and like its virtual assistant predecessors Tempo aims to provide contextual understanding to a common app: the calendar. Read more »
Nuance is buying online virtual sales and support assistant developer VirtuOz for an undisclosed price, our sources tell us. VirtuOz gives Nuance a stake in the enterprise virtual assistant market to… Read more »
There are a lot of bad Siri imitators in the Android Market, but Monday night a pretty close approximation to Apple’s now-iconic personal assistant will be available. Nuance Communications is launching… Read more »