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Perplexity AI has launched a new voice assistant feature within its iOS app, significantly enhancing the utility and interactive experience of its AI assistant. According to AIbase, the new feature supports setting alarms, finding directions, sending messages, making restaurant reservations, and more. Combined with powerful real-time search and multi-app integration, it offers users a seamless smart living experience. The update is now live on the App Store and has received enthusiastic community feedback, marking Perplexity's strong advance into the comprehensive AI assistant market. Core features.

Bloomberg reported that AI company Anthropic is actively developing a new voice assistant feature for its chatbot, Claude, expected to be released this month. This new feature will allow Claude AI to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT in user interaction experience, enriching how users communicate with AI. Nearly a year after OpenAI launched a similar feature, Claude's voice mode is clearly a timely response to market demand.

OpenAI released an update to its advanced voice mode on Monday, enabling more natural, real-time conversations with ChatGPT. The updated voice assistant is designed to be more human-like in its interactions and minimizes interruptions. OpenAI's post-training researcher, Manuka Stratta, announced the update via a video on the company's official social media channels. This update aims to address a common issue with AI voice assistants: frequent interruptions while users are thinking or pausing.

Apple recently made a rare high-level executive reshuffle in an attempt to revitalize its lagging AI projects. CEO Tim Cook has reportedly lost confidence in John Giannandrea, head of AI, and has appointed Mike Rockwell, head of Vision Pro, to take over Siri. This move highlights Apple's urgency to catch up with competitors in the AI field. Rockwell will report directly to Craig Federighi, software chief, completely removing Siri from Giannandrea's purview. Rockwell's previous responsibilities for V...

At Amazon's annual devices and services event, the company officially launched its enhanced voice assistant, Alexa+. This new version not only improves voice interaction but also incorporates generative AI technology, making user interactions with Alexa more intelligent and convenient. Amazon demonstrated the ability to share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to extract key information and answer questions about those documents. Mara Segal, Alexa's project lead, showcased several real-world applications.

vivo recently announced a gray-scale update (version 5.2.1.22) to its "Blue Heart Little V" voice assistant, incorporating DeepSeek large model capabilities. This highly anticipated update enables "Little V" to offer more intelligent and in-depth thinking, assisting users in better information processing. User feedback indicates that with the deep thinking (R1) function enabled, "Blue Heart Little V" can conduct more comprehensive and thorough analysis based on user input commands.

Amazon is fully advancing the upgrade of its voice assistant Alexa, planning to replace its 'brain' with more advanced generative artificial intelligence technology. However, this significant technological transformation is facing a series of delays and challenges, putting Amazon in a tense position in the competition. Note: Image from official screenshot. It is reported that Amazon has been actively developing new AI features to enhance Alexa's voice recognition and response capabilities. This upgrade aims to enable Alexa to interact more naturally with users, providing a better experience.

Recently, WPS Office launched its AI voice transcription feature, which is enhanced by WPS AI technology and deeply integrated with WPS cloud documents, providing users with a faster, more accurate, and smarter voice-to-text experience. This new feature not only supports real-time recording and audio import for voice-to-text conversion but also enables translations between multiple languages, including Chinese and English, ensuring the integrity of recording files. Even if there is an unexpected exit during the recording process, users can return to the task and continue recording.

Recently, Rivian's Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid confirmed in a showroom in Venice, California, that the Rivian R1T and R1S models will feature a new AI voice assistant set to launch in 2025. This assistant will support text-to-speech messaging functionalities, aimed at enhancing the user's intelligent experience within the vehicle. Bensaid mentioned that the team started developing the text messaging voice integration feature two years ago, but the current solutions did not meet the company's standards.

Recently, according to Bloomberg, Apple is developing a new voice assistant, Siri, which will utilize advanced large language models (LLMs) technology to achieve a more natural conversational experience. This move aims to close the gap with competitors, as products like Google's Gemini Live have demonstrated higher naturalness in conversational capabilities in recent years. According to sources, the new Siri assistant will completely replace the current Siri interface used by customers, with a planned release in 2026.

Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. recently announced the launch of its latest product 'Skywork 4.0' and the real-time voice dialogue assistant Skyo. This advancement marks the company's deepening development in the field of artificial intelligence, dedicated to providing a better user experience. Skyo is an intelligent voice interaction product with quick response and multilingual conversation capabilities, able to initiate dialogues and interrupt in real-time. The product also features emotional responses and personalized voice customization, aiming to provide users with warm and thoughtful companionship.

Google officially launched the new Gemini application on the Apple App Store, introducing the voice interaction feature Gemini Live, marking a significant breakthrough in the smart voice assistant field. Meanwhile, Apple's plan to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into Siri also indicates an intensifying competition in this area. As an upgraded version of Bard released by Google in 2023, Gemini is

Recently, Google launched a new AI voice assistant, Gemini Live, which allows users to engage in more natural conversations and supports 10 languages. Initially, Gemini Live was only available to paying users, but now all iOS and Android users can download and use it for free. Users can experience smoother human-machine interaction through the application, breaking the limitations of traditional voice assistants. One of the features of Gemini Live is its ability to conduct multi-turn conversations.

Recently, reports have emerged that Amazon's plans to revamp its smart voice assistant, Alexa, have been delayed yet again, with the new launch date pushed to 2025. According to Bloomberg, insiders familiar with the matter stated that Alexa's AI team was informed that the new version, originally set to launch this year, has now been forced to delay. As early as September last year, Amazon announced plans for a major overhaul of Alexa, which will be equipped with intelligence similar to ChatGPT, enabling it to provide more natural and engaging interactions.

According to Bloomberg, Amazon's voice assistant Alexa was originally scheduled for a major AI overhaul by the end of this year, but it now appears to be delayed until 2025. The upgrade is intended to make Alexa smarter and more powerful, with improved conversational abilities and the capability to handle new tasks. The report also details issues encountered during testing the AI-enhanced version of Alexa. For instance, beta users reported that the AI sometimes provided lengthy, convoluted answers that were not entirely relevant to the original query.