Samsung Patents a Voice Assistant That Plans Its Own Path Through Any App
Instead of a voice assistant that only works where developers built in support, Samsung is patenting a system that builds its own…
Machines that listen and talk back: transcription, translation, synthetic voices, and the systems that clean up how we sound.
Instead of a voice assistant that only works where developers built in support, Samsung is patenting a system that builds its own…
Teaching an AI to understand speech and generate speech at the same time — and letting each half grade the other's homework…
Meta is working on a voice assistant that doesn't just wait for you to finish speaking — it offers completions and pre-built…
Voice assistants often fail when you phrase a command slightly differently than they expect. Microsoft's new patent uses a large language model…
Imagine pausing an article being read aloud and then saying 'go back to the part about the budget' — and your device…
Getting a voice assistant to accurately transcribe speech in multiple languages — especially when speakers switch mid-sentence — is one of the…
Getting an AI that transcribes speech to actually *understand* what was said — not just write it down — requires connecting two…
Many real conversations don't stay in one language — people switch mid-sentence, mid-meeting, or mid-call. Nvidia's new patent describes a speech recognition…
Imagine shouting a command at your Samsung TV while a Netflix show is playing — and the TV automatically figures out whether…
Samsung is patenting a speech recognition approach that processes your voice twice — once as-is and once with audio enhancement — then…
Qualcomm is patenting a way for a device's AI to simultaneously take in a photo, some text, and a voice clip —…
Nvidia is working on an AI system that can watch a how-to video and automatically produce a written step-by-step guide — no…
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