A former Apple engineer who worked on Siri has launched a new startup that aims to compete with conversational AI giants like Amazon and Google. The startup, called Brighten.ai, develops voice recognition software that runs on mobile devices and PCs as opposed to shuttling speech data back and forth to the cloud. That means it can offer faster response times and more controllable costs than...
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A few months into his job as chief legal officer of Sonos, Eddie Lazarus was ready to wage war. When Lazarus joined the audio hardware company in late 2018, it was facing growing competition from tech giants like Amazon and Google. Both companies were selling cheap speakers capable of multiroom audio playback, a feature Sonos had pioneered on its devices more than a decade earlier. Sonos...
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