voice assistant

Botim’s flagship app has gone voice-first: Astra Tech announced that botim has integrated Microsoft Azure’s Voice Live API to power a multilingual, speech-to-speech assistant that can handle payments, remittances, calls and multi-step workflows inside the app — a step that positions botim as an...

TomTom’s latest announcement that it is deepening its production-grade integration with Microsoft Azure—bringing Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) into its automotive stack—marks a concrete step from experimental voice assistants toward...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update folds voice, vision, and agentic AI more tightly into the operating system—introducing an opt‑in wake phrase, “Hey Copilot,” and a matching conversational exit, commonly described as a semantic goodbye. The change is small in wording but huge in implication...

Microsoft’s latest push to make voice a first‑class way to interact with PCs signals a deliberate pivot: Windows is being reframed not just as an operating system, but as a conversational, context‑aware assistant platform that expects users to speak, show and — in carefully permissioned cases —...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrived this week as a deliberate attempt to give Windows a friendly, animated face for voice-first AI — a small, color-shifting blob meant to signal listening, thinking and emotion while avoiding the intrusive mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is an intentionally playful, blob‑shaped face that Microsoft hopes will do what Clippy never could: make talking to your PC feel natural, useful and — crucially — safe. Background Microsoft has rolled out a major update to its Copilot assistant that...

Microsoft’s move to give Copilot a visible, animated personality — an abstract, colorful avatar named Mico — marks a deliberate shift from a text-first helper to a voice‑first, multimodal companion on Windows 11, rolling out first in the United States as part of the Copilot Fall Release and...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Microsoft’s brief social tease this week — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — was no idle marketing flourish: it prefaced a substantial, AI‑first update that shifts Windows 11 toward voice and agentic interactions, tightly...

Microsoft’s cheeky social tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday” — landed at the exact moment Microsoft closed the decade‑long chapter on Windows 10, and the short message has already reshaped conversation about the platform’s...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to put Microsoft Copilot — the company's conversational AI companion — front and centre on Samsung's 2025 lineup of smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning the biggest screens in the home into voice‑activated, context‑aware helpers for discovery, learning and...

Microsoft’s work to move Copilot and Azure AI out of the office and into the vehicle cabin has taken a concrete step through an expanded relationship with Cerence — a partnership that stitches together in‑car voice assistants, Azure OpenAI capabilities, and the emerging third‑party agent...

Google’s decision to replace the long-serving Google Assistant on Nest and Google Home devices with a Gemini-powered assistant — branded Gemini for Home and launching into early access on October 1, 2025 — is one of the most consequential shifts in the smart‑home assistant market in years...

Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...

Samsung and Microsoft have quietly moved the next phase of conversational AI out of the pocket and onto the living‑room wall: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 Smart TVs and Smart Monitors as part of Samsung Vision AI, accessible from Tizen by voice or remote and surfaced...

Microsoft’s Copilot is coming to the biggest screens in your home, bringing voice-driven AI, animated on-screen responses, and “memory”-style personalization to select Samsung 2025 TVs and smart monitors — and with those conveniences come real-world privacy and security tradeoffs that every...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI has arrived on Samsung’s 2025 smart TVs and smart monitors, bringing a voice‑driven, conversational assistant and animated on‑screen persona to the living room at no extra cost — initially on select Micro LED, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame and The Frame Pro models, plus the...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now living on the biggest screens in the home: select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors can summon a voice‑first, visually rich Copilot that speaks aloud, shows large, glanceable cards, and appears as an animated on‑screen persona designed for shared living‑room use...