While even the original Siri creators have unveiled their own competitor to the built-in iOS virtual assistant, another new player will soon enter the market. As detailed in a report from Bloomberg, European mobile networks Orange SA and Deutsche Telekom are building an artificial intelligence platform…
The new assistant is called Djingo and responds to both voice and text. It was first unveiled by Orange CEO Stephane Richard earlier today. Richard demonstrated Djingo in the form of a donut-shaped speaker and showed it playing music and publishing a tweet.
Djingo will also be integrated into various devices such as a standalone speaker and microphone-equipped TV remotes.
Last year, the original creators of Siri officially unveiled a new virtual assistant, Viv. The assistant worked by integrating various applications and allowing users to use their voice to perform functions with those applications. Just a few months after the unveiling of Viv, however, it was acquired by Samsung for an unknown price.
