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Technology firm Clinc has unveiled an artificial intelligence voice for game studios that can understand natural language.

The next time when you shout into the ordering box at a drive-through, you might not be talking to a human but an automated order taker.

Getting computers to talk finance with banking customers by voice or text is a big challenge, as anyone who has encountered a bank chatbot knows. Jason Mars, co-founder and CEO of Clinc, said conversational AI is just at the frontier of its potential.

Clinc, a four-year-old conversational AI startup, is teaming up with Ford to power voice recognition in the Detroit automaker’s cars. The two companies announced the collaboration today during the Detroit Auto Show

U.S.-based Clinc and Turkish private bank Isbank have launched the “world’s second-largest” mobile banking voice assistant with over six million users, reports Antony Peyton of FinTech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication).

US-based Clinc and Turkish private bank Isbank have launched the “world’s second-largest” mobile banking voice assistant with over six million users.

Clinc co-founder and CEO Jason Mars just  revealed a platform to give developers access to the conversational AI. The company says it’s easy enough for developers with little to no experience in machine learning to build with Clinc’s products.

Clinc, which has spent the past two years creating AI voice controls for financial services companies, is looking to expand into the quick-service restaurant (QSR) sector to augment the voice control capabilities of drive-thru windows and in-store ordering kiosks.

The system, designed to handled the most convoluted orders, not only eliminates ordering mishaps but also condenses the time elapsed between when an order is placed and when food is handed off.

$155 billion asset USAA uses Clinc’s technology to offer broader conversations and analysis than just binary sort of answers.

İşbank’s Ceren Sayar and Eren Hukumdar .. announce their expanded partnership and upcoming launch of İşbank’s new call center initiatives powered by Clinc’s world-class conversational AI.

AI has the potential to change everything, but there is a fundamental disconnect between what AI is capable of and how we interface with it. Clinc has tried to close that gap with its conversational AI …

How are banks going to interact with their customers in the next five years? In the next ten? … [Voice] is going to be the key platform for the next five to ten years, there’s no doubt …

Clinc announced the launch of a new self-service platform, Spotlight, that enables FIs to train and deploy sophisticated conversational AI software in-house, independently of vendors.

Clinc, the leading conversational artificial intelligence platform for financial institutions, today announced from Finovate Europe, the launch of Spotlight, its self-service AI platform that leverages Clinc’s novel machine learning infrastructure and technology and puts the power of world-class conversational design into the hands of banks for the first time.

Clinc has developed a conversational AI platform for financial institutions that is like a more advanced “Siri for your bank account” or a “Google Now for your finances” …

We contacted Clinc in May or June and we decided to make a pilot because their product was 100 percent what Isbank was looking for…

IF JASON MARS HAS HIS WAY, no one will have money problems ever again. We’ll all be diligent savers, with robust retirement portfolios, never losing track of what goes in and out of our bank accounts.

Prof. Mars, who has led the company in building on research findings from studies at UM into a company with a category-leading commercial offering, was named #2 in Bank Innovations’s “10 Most innovative CEOs in Banking 2017” list.

Clinc’s natural language platform, Finie, is now deployed in six countries and in 80 different languages. The partnership with Isbank alone will put Clinc’s technology in the hands of more than 4.5 million app users.

Last week, at the Money 20/20 conference, Clinc hit another milestone with the announcement that it will partner with Isbank, the largest private bank in Turkey, to bring its technology to the institution’s more than 5.5 million users.

Clinc Inc is one of the most well-funded fintech startups in US and the most well-funded fintech startup in Michigan.

Fresh after winning “Best in Show” at Bank AI a few weeks ago, Clinc announced at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas yesterday a new partnership with Turkey’s largest bank IsBank, to integrate its conversational A.I. platform into the bank’s mobile app.

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Going beyond traditional rules-based voice or chatbot digital banking solutions, a non-bot, natural language banking experience is being offered to USAA members in an Amazon Alexa pilot with Clinc.

USAA members will now be able to bank via Amazon Alexa, skipping all of the typical command memorization necessary for learning a new skill, thanks to conversational artificial intelligence built out by AI platform Clinc, the companies announced today.

Military bank USAA is tapping AI technology from Clinc for a pilot that will let members check their balances and spending patterns by talking to Amazon’s Alexa.

USAA chose virtual assistant software company Clinc to generate Alexa’s responses because of how forgiving its conversational interface is, Jones said.

Clinc has raised a $6.3 million funding round led by Drive Capital, with participation from Hyde Park Venture Partners, Cahoots Holding …

The company is today announcing it closed a $6.3 million Series A led by Drive Capital and joined by Hyde Park Venture Partners, Cahoots Holdings and Boston’s Stuart Porter. This round brings the total raised to $7.75 million since its founding in July 2015.

The First Global Fintech Podcast featuring Dr. Jason Mars, Dr. Diane Change, Karen Webster, Jean Chatzky, Cheryl Nash, Jeff Makowka, and Michael Lawlor.

Without a limited template of basic questions or tasks, it is believed consumers will become more engaged.

The cloud-based technology that can be integrated into existing apps – Citi, Visa and Intuit are already working to put it inside their banking apps.

But Finie is capable of knowing much more and about a wider variety of topics … that could be employed across a whole host of verticals.

… The intelligent personal assistant is a remarkable natural language processing engine that has specifically trained its applications with a deeper knowledge of the financial and banking industry.

Mr. Mars’s start-up is part of a growing high-tech field called conversational computing … Conversational computing is holding a mirror to many of society’s biggest preconceptions around race and gender.

This ability to actually dialogue with customers … is a critical step for the future development of bots. A current gap Finie, a “finance genie” also debuted at Finovate and created by year-old startup Clinc, aims to bridge.

Clinc was a hit at Finovate Fall, which featured a who’s who of the financial technology world.

The emphatic response Lucida has drawn so far seems to further validate Laurenzano’s choice. Tang says the Lucida team has received inquiries from numerous industries requesting an industry-specific AI assistant.

[Clinc] focuses on natural language processing to mimic human intelligence and communication. Because the company’s platform automatically learns over time, it’s not dependent on continual coding to grow.

Ultimately, that’s why Mars is running his [Lucida] project. The Apples and Googles and the Microsoft know how this new breed of service operates, but the rest of the world doesn’t. And they need to.

Some startups have been striving to develop their own smart assistants, but none has yet been able to challenge Apple, Google, or Microsoft. …following the arrival of [Lucida], that could change.