by Amantha May | February 8, 2021 | Health
Virtual assistants within smart devices, such as Amazon Alexa, provide solutions for people with limited movement, low vision, and other types of disabilities. But speech impairments can prevent smart home devices from recognizing voice commands. Older adults have a...
by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2021 | Health
Digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri send us reminders, answer questions, and provide music and entertainment at our spoken command. We’ve written about several medical and health-related Alexa Skills such as...
by Bruce Brown | October 9, 2020 | Health
Amazon’s Alexa digital voice assistant currently converses with more than 384 million people worldwide, according to the Alexa device sitting on my desk when I asked just now. We’ve written about diverse Alexa implementations in health and wellness, from...
by Bruce Brown | March 27, 2020 | Medical
There is seemingly no end to applications for digital voice assistants such as Siri, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa. We’ve written several times about Alexa Skills developed for health and medical applications. Ambulance and EMS personnel associated with...
by Bruce Brown | November 13, 2019 | Health
Health applications may not have a giant share of the 100,000+ Amazon Alexa smart speaker Skills, but we’ve found an interesting assortment of voice-enabled health and medical tools that take advantage of the open Alexa Toolkit. Alexa helps ambulance attendance...
