alexa Archives - Public Media Now https://publicmedianow.org/tag/alexa/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:57:56 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://publicmedianow.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2018-08-07-at-5.01.29-PM-150x150.png alexa Archives - Public Media Now https://publicmedianow.org/tag/alexa/ 32 32 Webby Winners – Public Media claims top spots for Best Voice Experiences of 2020 https://publicmedianow.org/news/webby-winners-public-media-claims-top-spots-for-best-voice-experiences-of-2020/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:53:16 +0000 https://publicmedianow.org/?p=4468 And The Webby Goes To… The following Alexa skills and developers were selected as Webby Winners or voted Winners of the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Public Media took home 3 of the top 5 spots. NPR News Now by NPR News (Voice) Five minutes of NPR news, updated hourly. Includes video on compatible devices. The Voicebot […]

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And The Webby Goes To…

The following Alexa skills and developers were selected as Webby Winners or voted Winners of the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Public Media took home 3 of the top 5 spots.


NPR News Now by NPR
News (Voice)
Five minutes of NPR news, updated hourly. Includes video on compatible devices.


The Voicebot Chronicles by KQED
Best Writing
The Voicebot Chronicles is a groundbreaking interactive series about navigating a world where humans are increasingly talking with machines – and machines are talking back.


Wait Wait Quiz by NPR
Best Writing
Technical Achievement
This interactive game hosted by Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis lets you answer fill-in-the-blank questions from this week’s news. Keep playing week to week for a chance to have your name mentioned on an episode of the show.

Congratulations to KQED and NPR!!!!

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]]> Who’s Winning the Smart Speaker / Voice Battle? https://publicmedianow.org/digital-news/whos-winning-the-smart-speaker-voice-battle/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:12:31 +0000 https://publicmedianow.org/?p=3463 This year, Amazon Echo will capture 66.6% of the US smart speaker-audience, while Google Home will capture 29.5%. Though Amazon Echo is losing share as other players, like Google as well as smaller rivals, begin to grow—smart speaker usage is accelerating.

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