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Google Maps rival TomTom creates AI-based conversational assistant for vehicles with Microsoft
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Google Maps rival TomTom creates AI-based conversational assistant for vehicles with Microsoft

[ad_1] Digital mapping specialist TomTom said on Tuesday it has partnered with tech giant Microsoft to create an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational assistant for vehicles. The assistant will allow users to "converse naturally with their vehicles" and enable voice interaction with infotainment, location search, and vehicle command systems, the company said.TomTom, which competes with Google Maps and the world's biggest mapping platform HERE, used various Microsoft services like its Azure OpenAI Service to create the voice assistant. The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service allows enterprises to leverage ChatGPT maker OpenAI's large language models (LLM). The voice assistant can be integrated into other automotive infotainment systems and is also built into TomTom's Digital Coc...
‘Home Assistant’ to get its own voice separate from Siri or Alexa
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‘Home Assistant’ to get its own voice separate from Siri or Alexa

[ad_1] 'Home Assistant', an open-source platform for smart home interaction, would soon be having all its voice commands localized. No need for Google, Siri or Alexa to speak with your AI-powered smart home platform anymore. 'Home Assistant', an open-source platform for smart home interaction, would soon be having all its voice commands localized. The platform's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, took to the official 'Home Assistant' blog last week to announce the launching of the project which would give the housing platform its own voice assistant with a set of basic sentences to start with. "It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language," the blog read. According to a report by US-based tech portal 'The Verge', the Schoutsen-run company 'Nabu Cas...