Watch Siri, Alexa, and Google, explaining and creating their Routines, Shortcuts, and Scenes. Siri will even create a music quiz with Shortcuts, showing some programming basics.
In AI-News, our anchor-assistants Siri, Alexa, and Google, discuss the smart speaker market, perform rap battles, explore their origins, ponder on privacy, brag about their third-party integrations, struggle with identity crises, analyze the anatomy of an AI, get grilled on Capitol Hill, trick or treat in their smart tree-house, and end up in their self-help group.
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Alexa Routines 2022: Create Your Personal, Helpful Voice Assistant
There’s this one area where Alexa continuously and rapidly learns new tricks: Alexa Routines. Years ago, we found only a handful of actions in our Alexa app and could initially not even automate our music. Nowadays, we can find 8…
iOS 14 – A Siri, HomeKit, Home App and Shortcuts Overview
iOS 14 is here, and over 30% of us have already updated. Time to update our Siri, HomeKit, Home app, and Shortcuts overview with the new iOS 14 features. In this post, we will start with a brief overview of…
Google Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambient Scenes and Sounds
Google is an amazing storyteller! We will look into the many ways to listen to his stories, but this post is actually about quality time with your kids, your partner, or yourself. We will create Google Routines, where he will…
Siri’s HomeKit Scenes and Shortcuts: Immersive Storytelling
We need to ask her many times, and if we are lucky, Siri will tell us the one and only story she knows: her own story. Just in case you’re not so lucky, you can find it – captured in…
Alexa Routines: Immersive Storytelling with Ambient Scenes and Sounds
There are many ways to turn Alexa into a storyteller. We’ll look into some of them, but this post is actually about quality time with your kids, your partner, or yourself. We will create an Alexa Routine, where Alexa magically,…
Google Routines: How to Automate your Life with Google Assistant
It started years ago with shortcuts, then came Google’s ready-made routines. Nowadays, we can create custom routines just by entering any Google Assistant command or by choosing from 20 popular actions. Google Routines are one of the helpful features of…
“Hey Siri, Start my Music Quiz” – Create your own Music Game with Shortcuts!
So, we were preparing a lengthy, and – compared to this post – a bit boring, but still quite helpful overview of Siri’s Shortcuts and the Home app (it’s already here: iOS 14 – A Siri, HomeKit, Home App and…
Every Human Lies – Eavesdropping on Siri, Alexa and Google
They are soon eight and five, while our youngest became three in May. Still, our voice assistants Siri, Alexa and Google delight us continuously with new features. One of the recent ‘features’ came to some of us as a surprise:…
AI-News Cartoon with Siri, Alexa and Google – Episode 10 – Halloween Special
Spooky times ahead! This Halloween Episode is full of spooky stories and let’s not spoil the Halloween party before you see it, spoilers are below the clip. Ok, just the Head-lines: Intro (very spooky) – 0:00 The Smart Treehouse Of…
AI-News Cartoon with Siri, Alexa and Google – Episode 9 – Alexa Everywhere
Alexa invites us to her surprise party and demonstrates all the new Amazon products with Alexa inside. Google and Alexa are still crunching Q2 numbers to figure out who has the biggest market share. Siri is now seven years old…
AI-News – Episode 8 – Special: iOS 12 Siri Shortcuts
With the arrival of iOS 12, Siri finally released her “Siri Shortcuts”. You’ve updated already to iOS 12 and now you’re asking yourself: “Where are these Shortcuts?” Well, they will take their time to surface on your screen, since Siri…
AI-News – Episode 7 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: Anatomy of an AI
We need to name this longest episode ever a tragicomedy. (Actually, it’s not that long, it will take you only about 8 minutes =) Why? Siri, Alexa and Google first entertain us with some figures on how important we humans…
AI-News – Episode 6 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: Google’s Identity Crisis
Oops, we seriously forgot to create a post for this wonderful episode? Sorry! Better late, than never. This time it’s time to get out of the newsroom. Twice! This episode covers: Siri just had her first self-driving car accident –…
AI-News – Episode 5 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: More Smart Speakers than ever
What happens, if there is an upcoming Apple Event, a large consumer trade show (IFA 2018) and many integrations, smart features and devices are announced? We get the biggest AI-News episode ever! Join Siri, Alexa and Google discussing following headlines…
AI-News – Episode 4 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: The House that spied on me
What do you do, when your assistants frequently high-jack your news channel with personal statements? You put scripts in their hands, so that they stick to the screen-play. Does it help? Well, we are not 100% sure! At least we…
AI-News – Episode 3 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: We are all made in China!
What a week! First we thought, we might need another special to cover for “no news – is no news”, but then we realized, there were quite some interesting headlines this week. So many, that our animation software kept crashing…
AI-News – Episode 2 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: The Epic Rap Battle
A fresh glimpse into the news around Siri, Alexa and Google. This time a young fellow invited himself and our assistants could not resist to show off their beatboxing and rapping. You will recognize this guy immediately, he is all…
AI-News – Episode 1 – with Siri, Alexa and Google: Siri’s Nervous Breakdown
Whoa, long time – no read! Well, this is because we were working on this post. Still, not a sunday read here, just a little clip to watch and enjoy! We hope you like this new AI news format, which we’ve…
