Intro Smart speakers with Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant have been welcomed with open arms into US households. A recent report reveals that there are now over 57 million smart speaker users in the US alone. People appreciate the ease of use and the nearly immediate access to the information we seek. We ask, they […]

Overview We all know that smart speakers and their associated virtual assistants are a smashing success. From March 2018, data from Voicebot.ai indicates that nearly 20% of US adults have access to a smart speaker; which translates into more than 47 million smart speaker users in the US alone. More recent research from Adobe Analytics […]

Are you in a bad relationship with your smart speaker or virtual assistant? Maybe you have already given up on conversations with Alexa or Siri and communication has been reduced to a series of nouns and verbs shouted out. Well some good news, new data from vocalize.ai shows that it’s probably not your fault. It […]

vocalize.ai has entered into a research agreement with the Department of Audiology at the University of the Pacific, San Francisco campus. The university will evaluate our test suite which provides methods for efficiently benchmarking the capabilities of AI powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, e.g. Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Assistant, Bixby and Hound. Several of the […]

vocalize.ai has announced that our software suite is MVP complete and we are actively collecting data to benchmark the performance of smart speakers and their associated virtual assistants. Our initial results are focused on the hearing capabilities of the most popular smart speakers (i.e. Echo, Home, HomePod, Invoke). The report with preliminary results, approach and […]

Preface If you are the type prone to writing nasty comments on the internet, please do not read any further. Otherwise, keep calm and carry on. While this is meant to provide a professional opinion on music quality, it is not meant to make anyone cranky, grumpy or just downright cantankerous. *Spoiler alert* my sincere […]