Siri is so bad at everything(reddit.com)
67 points by haunter | 46 comments
A Reddit r/apple thread complaining that Siri performs poorly at most tasks; the page loaded as a Reddit network-security block screen.
#voice-assistants on Hacker News
8 stories tagged voice-assistants, newest first.
Apple picks Gemini to power Siri(cnbc.com)
959 points by stygiansonic | 588 comments
CNBC news article reporting that Apple is partnering with Google to use Gemini models to power a new AI-driven Siri launching this year.
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud(theregister.com)
428 points by johnshades | 113 comments
The Register article reporting Amazon will end on-device Alexa voice processing on March 28, 2025, sending all Echo voice requests to the cloud.
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice(sesame.com)
346 points by monroewalker | 179 comments
Sesame research post by Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar and team on building natural-sounding conversational voice AI, with an interactive demo.
Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions(wsj.com)
428 points by marban | 770 comments
WSJ article on Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices losing billions despite being in millions of homes; the page loaded a captcha bot check instead.
Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants(github.com)
320 points by kwindla | 34 comments
GitHub repository for Pipecat, an open source Python framework for building real-time voice and multimodal conversational AI agents.
We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT(openai.com)
1045 points by ladino | 806 comments
OpenAI blog post announcing the rollout of new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT, letting users talk to it and show it pictures.
Even Apple employees hate Siri and are skeptical of its future, new report says(9to5mac.com)
379 points by carlycue | 390 comments
9to5Mac article on a report that Apple employees are frustrated with Siri and skeptical of its future.