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Samsung Reportedly Developing a Voice-Controlled Speaker To Compete With Amazon Echo (geekwire.com)
Samsung may be working on a smart speaker of its own. The company is developing a smart speaker powered by its Bixby voice assistant, according to The Wall Street Journal. From a report: A new report from The Wall Street Journal claims Samsung is working on its own voice-controlled home speaker to compete with the likes of the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and other devices that will be launched over the next few months and years. Details about Samsung's speaker and when we might expect to see it on the market are scant, but The Wall Street Journal does say that the device will be powered by Bixby. Bixby -- Samsung's answer to Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri -- is available in South Korea, where the company is based, but the English-language version is still in the works. Meanwhile, other tech companies like Alibaba, Apple, and Microsoft are developing their own smart speakers to compete with Amazon and Alphabet.
This is a solution in search of a problem. This is basically a music player that spies on you and your family.
Too bad Amazon already took the brand name "Fire".
No more spy devices!
in South Korea. Samsung, please understand that what might be of interest to your domestic market is largely detracting from your products in the rest of the world.
FTW!
I am shocked, shocked I tell ya!
Is this device NSA/HS approved?
Hogan angry?
Gawker gone?
Grimsby?
Father figure?
TRUMP!
How the world turns.
Sickening.
So yes, consider Apple first.
"Meanwhile, other tech companies like Alibaba, Apple, and Microsoft are developing their own smart speakers to compete with Amazon."
Right now, Amazon is really the only player.
#DeleteChrome
Too much wireless. Bigger than a Nomad. Lame.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I truly do want an Apple HomePod.
Apple's privacy rules ensure my data is kept secure from prying eyes. The benefits of a well-designed, well-built, and secure smart speaker based on Apple's A8 chip will be apparent. It looks wonderful and by all accounts sounds fantastic. I am sure Apple's HomePod will help improve my Digital Life with its sealed up, highly compresses magic inside.
HomePod is only the latest brave act in Apple's 40+ years of making the bravest brave decisions of bravery.
Here is the product
I am not a paid Apple shill.
Trolling is a art,
Like the upcoming OLED. Apple will fix the flaws everyone else couldn't, or wouldn't.
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We have all of these pushes for IoT and voice, but as we just read on /. earlier Intel is laying off a bunch of IoT staff. There is no real growth in voice recognition, we are just moving around people who already use it. Apple's Siri big advancement in the last couple years is adding new voices, not really improving or adding new technology. The work involved is more about data storage, transfer, and compression than "new" technology.
Like VR, it's a niche market and overly hyped for exactly the reasons people dislike it. It's intrusive and can be used for nefarious purposes as well as just being easy.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Unlike the other talking box providers, Samsung makes TVs and other consumer devices.
I would think the incremental cost of adding this technology to something like a TV would be very small, making it something that you couldn't avoid unless you were to avoid Samsung (which isn't that a horrific prospect in itself).
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After all, Samsung has a proven track record in that respect.
My daughter is in a wheelchair and Alexa lets her turn on room lights, lamps, look ip things on the internet and yes, play music. It's and related devices have been wonderful for her. Soon we'll use it for alarm control too and hoppefully for automated door openers. Many new Alexa skills in development that are helpful too.
You can do all that stuff in a wheelchair without a spy box in your house.
... after a standard is established whereby the speakers are not proprietary to a single channel.
Until then, the market share will resemble Facebook vs Google+, where Amazon will be the dominate player.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Samsung's business strategy is to copy everything they see? Having dealt with their corporate culture for years, I have strong suspicions as to why Samsung is devoid of creative thought.
(anonymous coward because I have a business relationship with Samsung)
Their TVs already listen to everything ans dens it to Samsung, last I heard. Just leave out the TV screen and they are almost done...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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She's quite good. Better than Siri and OK Google. Not Sure about Alexa.
Bixby is just not needed. Pull the plug Samsung.
really, samsung doing something everybody else has done before? qu'elle surprise. at least there's a good chance that they won't copy apple's design for a change.
Then I can buy something and they will all try to undercut the other. An argument will ensue, and it will be like several people all wanting the last cheesy biscuit at Red Lobster.
They are copying something that Apple didn't do first?