Alexa Can Now Adjust Your Smart Home Devices Without Needing to Ask Permission

Alexa device owners can now set the voice assistant to operate smart devices without asking permission every time. Full Story: Voicebot.ai

Voice Search Is On the Rise. Now Is the Time to Optimize Your Content

A growing proportion of searches are being spoken instead of being typed in on a keyboard. Full Story: Business 2 Community

How Voice Is Winning Consumers By Being Everywhere They Want To Be

While historians will have no shortage of things to write about at great length when it comes to the year 2020, one of the highlights will have to be how a year spent at home completely rewrote consumer shopping habits end-to-end. Full Story: pymnts.com

Alexa can now control your smart home gadgets without voice commands

The Alexa Hunches feature can now automate smart home devices based on previous behaviour. Full Story: TechRadar

Guinness World Records Adds Alexa Skill Full of Astounding Feats

Guinness World Records has launched an Alexa skill, adding its store of unusual and impressive feats to the voice assistant’s database. Full Story: Voicebot.ai

Alexa can make remote learning easier. Here’s how

Amazon’s voice assistant has some good ideas for improving your kids’ school experience this semester. Full Story: CNET

Car Makers Can Now Use Alexa Custom Assistant To Build Their Own Voice Assistants

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa will now soon power other custom AI voice assistants in various automobiles, thanks to the new Alexa Custom Assistant. Full Story: TechnoCodex

Futurespective on Voice Technology from the Google Assistant Product Team

Technology isn’t silent anymore. It talks, and its voice shapes the way we live — working and virtual learning, shopping for cleaning supplies, playing daily music mixes, cooking new recipes, or exercising — all by just asking for it out loud. Full Story: ReadWrite

Touchless tech: is it really the future or a source of frustration?

Touchless toilet and faucet. Meanwhile, Kohler unveiled a touchless kitchen faucet that can also be asked to dispense a set amount of water via a voice assistant. Full Story: TechRadar

Automation Is Still Growing in the Workplace Despite Concerns

While there has been a lot of talk about automation in the workplace over the past couple of years, and even more so since last March and the emergence of the COVID-19, it has been hard to quantify how automation is impacting the digital workplace and the way people are working. Full Story: CMSWire