While I enjoy tinkering with Home Assistant to make my smart devices work, I ensure all of them are manageable locally. While axing most cloud-dependent services, the only thing I miss is voice ...

What if your technology could truly listen to you—not just hear your words, but understand them, respond intelligently, and even speak back with human-like clarity? The rise of AI voice assistants has ...

As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

I am several months into building an all-Matter smart home. With privacy being such a key part of Matter, it feels odd to be reliant on a cloud-based voice assistant. So I tried out an offline-only ...

Have you ever wished your voice assistant could do more than just set alarms or tell you the weather? Imagine having a digital companion that not only understands your requests but also seamlessly ...

Many people buy a sleek smart speaker and end up using it for just three things: checking the weather, playing music, and setting kitchen timers. That mismatch is absurd because this device was never ...

With Gemini for Home arriving, Google's home voice assistant options are better than ever. Here are my favorite commands.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Speechify today announced a major expansion of its platform into a full AI Assistant and productivity system designed for people who prefer to interact ...

From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon's Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. How did ...

“Hey Siri, book me a table for four people, 7 PM, at Blue Tokai coffee shop in New Friends Colony.” None of the responses fulfilled my request. Not even remotely. Next, I switched to the Perplexity ...