{"id":254793,"date":"2018-04-05T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254793"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T08:01:49","slug":"microsoft-chatbot-can-talk-and-listen-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/254793-microsoft-chatbot-can-talk-and-listen-at-the-same-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft chatbot can talk and listen at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s social chatbot in China has <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/xiaoice-full-duplex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>made a breakthrough in communication<\/strong><\/a> with users.<\/p>\n<p>The XiaoIce chatbot has been updated to operate using full duplex communication.<\/p>\n<p>This means the AI can listen and talk to users simultaneously, as opposed to the traditional one-way communication offered by chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology allows the chatbot to speed up its responses and engage in more natural conversation, while removing the need for a wake word to respond to the bot.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it is working on rolling out the technology to its other chatbot projects around the world.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/254727-microsoft-patches-remote-code-execution-flaw-in-windows-defender.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft patches remote code execution flaw in Windows Defender<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s social chatbot in China has made a breakthrough in communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":242088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49781,49783,123,49779],"class_list":["post-254793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chatbot","tag-communication","tag-microsoft","tag-xiaolce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254799,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793\/revisions\/254799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}