Google’s ‘live’ AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is powering faster and ‘more natural’ AI audio in Search Live. is a news writer who covers the ...
GitHub

The Unofficial and Awesome Home Assistant MCP Server

A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to interact with Home Assistant. Using natural language, control smart home devices, query states, execute services and ...

Android Auto’s Secret Superpower Is a Customizable Shortcut Button

To modify a shortcut, just tap on it. To delete it, tap the red cross to the right. Deleting shortcuts doesn't in any way disable the normal voice command operation that Android Auto offers, and you ...
How-To Geek on MSN

4 Microsoft Copilot Linux alternatives that are just as good (if not better)

Wondering if Linux has AI companions that are as accessible, capable, and easy to use as Microsoft Copilot? Try these AI ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Rethinking Voice AI At The Edge: A Practical Offline Pipeline

Cloud-based AI dominates the headlines, but responsive and private interaction lies at the edge. This blog post shows how to build a fully offline, real-time voice assistant using the Arm-based NVIDIA ...
Outdoor Life

How to Hoot Like an Owl Using Your Natural Voice

For the last five years, a stream of hopeful kids and grown men alike have filed on stage to compete in the natural-voice Owl Hoot Contest in Northwest Arkansas. In competition, these turkey hunters ...
GitHub

Android Voice Assistant (Ava)

Experimental Android voice assistant for Home Assistant that uses the ESPHome protocol. Intended for turning your existing Android wall panel or similar into a local voice assistant for controlling ...
Digi Times

Apple's smart home ambitions stalled by Siri AI delays

Apple's plans to expand deeper into the smart home market are facing renewed delays as the company struggles to complete a long-promised AI overhaul of Siri. The setbacks are pushing back a suite of ...
The Windows Club

Use Copilot Tasks to turn the AI Chatbot into a Personal Assistant

Copilot Tasks allows users to assign specific instructions that Copilot can carry out across multiple applications, making it more than an AI tool focused on text and image generation. Currently, ...
digitalcameraworld

You can now tell Photoshop’s AI Assistant what to do with your voice! Firefly gains raft of GenAI tools

Adobe has launched the public beta of its AI Assistant tool for Photoshop on web and mobile, while Firefly has been treated to five generative AI tools that will allow users to be more specific with ...
GameSpot

Master Chief Actor Condemns Use Of His Voice In White House Social Media Post

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Voice actor Steve Downes, best known as the voice behind Halo's Master Chief, denounced a White House social media video that contained a clip of his ...