"Business Insider" : Huawei is building a Chinese virtual assistant

collected by :Andro Alex Apple and Google have long had a voice assistant that users could use to interact with their devices. And now Samsung is set to launch its own version of a voice assistant in 2017. This means that Apple's Siri is the only smartphone-integrated voice assistant on the market. The company acquired Viv labs — the startup whose founder created Siri — in late 2016, which most industry pundits believe will form the backbone of the company's new voice assistant. This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers.


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Huawei is working on on its own digital assistant for smartphones – Tech2

Alexa, Amazon, Apple, digital assistant, Google, Google Assistant, Huawei, iPhone, SIRI, Voice Chinese smartphone maker Huawei is working on developing its own digital assistant to take on existing digital assistants in the market. According to the report, the company is not likely to limit the digital assistant to Huawei smartphones and it is aimed at taking on Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. A team consisting of more than 100 engineers is working on developing the digital assistant at the company's offices in Shenzhen in China, as reported by Bloomberg. Cortana is still available for Android devices, but Windows 10 devices are home for Microsoft's digital assistant.

Smartphone maker Huawei is developing an AI assistant that can speak Chinese

Today, the digital assistant services currently on the market are far from perfection, as the technology has a long way to improve. A digital assistant that can communicate in Chinese will be useful to smartphone users in China. As Huawei's new digital assistant will target the domestic market, creating something Chinese users love could give it the upper hand. So if Huawei is able to develop a voice assistant attuned to the needs of Chinese users, it may be able to leapfrog ahead of its competitors. Source: Huawei has 100+ engineers developing a smartphone digital assistant for its Chinese users,… https://t.co/mX17OJQFHh via @trend_slam pic.twitter.com/BodHb3eSaf — TrendSlam (@trend_slam) February 15, 2017Although the Chinese smartphone market is fairly crowded, it's still a country where Google services that come with Android OS are blocked.


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