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...Rival voice recognition systems such as Amazon’s Alexa also listen to audio recordings to improve their service, but Apple had not disclosed the practice to users....
...The singers Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora, fashion models Alexa Chung and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and the actress Michelle Keegan are among the 16 celebrities who have given formal commitments to the CMA...
...Andy Thompson, chief executive of Quilter Financial Planning, the UK’s second largest advice firm, says his company is investing in automating its systems....
...It is Amazon’s Alexa, not Apple’s older Siri, that brought virtual assistants to the wider public....
...(CNN) ‘Alexa, are you a help or a hindrance at work?’...
...I think I can live without you, Alexa. An address in an unassuming north London suburb provides the latest twist in the scandal engulfing Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest lender....
...And yet a report last week by J Walter Thompson and Mindshare, a global media agency network, argued that consumer brands should be excited about domestic smart speakers....
...Already, Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated virtual assistant, can remotely perform a multitude of mundane tasks, such as dimming lights and turning up the volume of your sound system, and is being integrated...
...The writer is worldwide director of J Walter Thompson Intelligence...
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