There’s a New Rival to Siri and Alexa
- Virtual assistant Djingo will respond to voice and text
- Carriers also working on challenger to Amazon’s Dash button
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European mobile networks Orange SA and Deutsche Telekom AG are teaming up to build an artificial intelligence platform, in a bid to catch up with Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc.
Djingo, a virtual assistant that responds to voice and text, was first demoed by Orange’s Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard Thursday in the form of a donut-shaped speaker. At a concert venue in Paris, Richard showed the system taking orders such as playing music or publishing a tweet. The service, still under development, will be made available on various devices through software applications made by Orange, he said.