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Dropbox Dash is like Apple Spotlight search fused with ChatGPT. AI 

Dropbox Transforms into AI-Powered Assistant

Adriana Marais, ,

Today, Dropbox revealed its latest offerings that unsurprisingly center around AI. The first, Dropbox AI, examines your documents and offers summaries and responses. The second, Dropbox Dash, is a more ambitious tool that acts as a comprehensive search bar for all aspects of your life. Dropbox AI is the simpler of the two new offerings. It uses AI for file previews and provides summaries and natural language Q&A of your documents. “With one click, you can condense your content, such as contracts and meeting recordings, into a concise explanation,” the…

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Interact with characters from Pixar movies, ‘Star Wars’ and more. News 

Echo Devices Now Enabled with Amazon’s ‘Hey Disney!’ Feature

Febin Mathew, , , ,

Amazon and Disney have collaborated to develop an interactive encounter that merges Alexa’s voice assistant capabilities with Disney’s extensive collection of characters. The newly launched “Hey Disney!” can be accessed on all Echo devices and marks the first instance where Amazon has permitted an assistant other than Alexa on its range of speakers and tablets. When you buy an annual subscription to the new voice assistant from the Alexa Skills Store, you’ll have whole new ways to interact with your Echo gadgets. The wake word changes to “Hey Disney!” which…

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Bing Chat now supports voice input and text-to-speech capabilities. AI 

Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Voice Chat Feature on Bing for Desktop

Adriana Marais, , , ,

Microsoft has introduced voice support for Bing’s chatbot on Edge for PCs, which is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology. The feature was initially available on Bing’s AI chatbot for mobile apps and has now been extended to desktop. Users can simply tap on the mic icon in the Bing Chat box to communicate with the AI-powered bot, and it can even read its responses aloud. Microsoft acknowledged that many users prefer voice input for chat on mobile and has now made it available on desktop as well. The feature currently…

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You can no longer set an alarm or order Tide Pods with Melissa McCarthy. News 

Alexa celebrity voices ditched by Amazon with no refunds

Adarsh V.K, ,

If you’ve been saving up to integrate Shaq’s voice into your Alexa devices, you’ve officially done so. Amazon is leaving out all the voices of Alexa-enabled celebrities, including Shaquille O’Neal, Melissa McCarthy, and Samuel L. Jackson, let’s just say it isn’t. Premium audio options are no longer available for purchase and will no longer work even if you purchased some time ago, as reported by The Verge. Which brings us back to the point, and it looks like there won’t be any. This is not alarming news as the volume…

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The new features are compatible with iOS and will be available for iPhone users in the coming weeks. News 

iPhones will soon speak with your voice after just 15 minutes of practice: what that means

Jim Hendler, ,

Apple has followed a fair policy of accessibility features for all iPhone users for years, but now it plans to take that strategy to a whole new level. What if we tell you that iPhones will soon speak with your voice, even after just 15 minutes of practice? This useful tool can help people with special disabilities receive phone calls. Apple calls it Personal Voice, where the user can read text into the iPhone and record their voice, which the device then uses for training. So the next time a…

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