September 2021 – Voice Search & Smart Speakers

Short, easy to remember, and unambiguous spelling had been the three golden rules for choosing a domain so far. Thanks to smart speakers like Alexa, Siri & Co, voice-based online search is on the rise and changing the success criteria for URLs and domain names.

Voice search is already pervasive and used every day, people ask for recipes, addresses, opening times or the weather occasionally; therefore, websites should be optimized accordingly. This means in practice, preparing information clearly, answering simple questions, and optimizing the loading time.

Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in the computer

Corporate design as a graphic part of corporate identity has been in use for over 100 years. But the idea of a corporate language, a tone of voice, is still quite new, even though a tailor-made brand language can matter, e.g., reduce costs and increase revenues, demonstrate creativity and innovation, and at the same time

A study by the German Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the American North Carolina State University, performed the first large-scale analysis of Alexa Skills. Skills are Alexa’s versions of apps, that are used via voice-commands and can be loaded onto the Amazon voice assistant. The study group’s examination revealed that this could bring not only advantages, but

The spread of voice assistants, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, heralds a new evolutionary stage for user interfaces.

Visa announced that it has helped to digitally-enable an estimated 16 million small and micro businesses (SMBs) worldwide, or just over 30% of the multi-year goal it set in 2020 to digitize 50 million SMBs.

Statistics on the use of Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Cortana from Microsoft or Siri from Apple, point to the same direction, namely the fact that the users have focused on a small, sharply defined area of application that is far below what was expected at the height of the hype two years ago.

AnyMind Group announced the launch of Story Engine, a no-code feature on AnyManager that enables users to easily create, edit, manage and publish Web Stories, an open-source initiative by Google.

Following the launch of Tencent Cloud‘s first Internet Data Center (IDC) in Indonesia, local businesses across industries and fields have shown significant interest in utilizing the industry-leading cloud offerings the new infrastructure has brought about in the region.