Displaying items by tag: voice control

iOS keeps getting better and better, forcing Android into eternal catch-up mode, and with Apple launching fantastic and wonderfully upgraded new features we'll all soon be enjoying.

If you've ever wanted to order your air conditioner around by voice so you could order up the right temperature, then Mitsubishi Electric's new voice control capability will get you talking.

Next week, Telstra will launch its nicely improved new 3rd-gen Telstra TV streaming player and new Home Broadband plans with "no more lock-in contracts". 

Waze users globally can now project the app’s "real-time traffic and navigation service onto the touch screen in Australian Ford vehicles via SYNC AppLink, and control it through voice command".

Amazon’s Alexa-powered range of Echo smart assistants will be bolstered in Australia with the Echo Spot now available for pre-order.

Amazon’s voice-controlled Alexa assistant and range of Echo devices are now here in Australia, offering information services, alarms, music, home automation and so much more. iTWire took a look.

Promising easy voice control of your home entertainment via Logitech Harmony and Amazon Alexa, the skill is now available to us in Australia and New Zealand.

If you're set to get an Amazon Alexa digital assistant, and you're an Amaysim customer, then a range of useful voice control Alexa features will soon be at your command.

The first Australian employment marketplace to embrace the skill of voice-activated job searching with Amazon Alexa is SEEK, with company reviews, job search skills and weekly employment market updates also available through Alexa.

If you're a NAB customer, you can nab yourself the Alexa word and "perform tasks such as requesting their account balance or getting details on their latest deposits".

Global cloud-hosting company AWS wants to bring its Alexa voice-enabled AI to a conference room near you.

It’s not just Australians and the rest of the world that will be unable to use the Bixby voice control at launch, now Samsung admits the US won’t be able to either.

With the aid of Data Solutions Group (DSG), Megaport has put together an interesting demonstration of the way its Elastic Connectivity service can be controlled programmatically.

Android users can now literally tell Shazam to recognise the music that's playing.

The Sony SmartBand Talk is now on sale in Australia, with the SmartWatch 3 close behind.

It might be a while before it reaches Holden, but General Motors' US Chevrolet operation is adding Siri support to some of its small cars.

Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

With today's Bluetooth headsets A2DP, DSP, noise-cancelling and multi-pair enabled, you need to do something different to stand out, with Plantronics doing just that with its latest Savor M1100 Bluetooth headset!

With today's Bluetooth headsets A2DP, DSP, noise-cancelling and multi-pair enabled, you need to do something different to stand out, with Plantronics doing just that with its latest Savor M1100 Bluetooth headset!

Although there was no mention whatsoever of improved or expanded voice commands or voice dictation in yesterday's iOS 5 launch, the word is that it's coming - as has a jailbreak of iOS 5 already!