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Engadget
22-05-2025
- Business
- Engadget
Amazon is testing AI-generated hosts that talk customers through product features
Amazon is testing a new feature that involves AI-generated hosts talking through product summaries. It looks fairly similar to Google's audio overviews , which also include AI-generated hosts that seem plucked from a middling podcast. Amazon says that these "AI shopping experts help save time by compiling research and providing product highlights for customers from product pages, reviews and insights." This leads me to an obvious question. Amazon is notorious for hosting fake reviews . Some studies suggest that fake reviews account for more than 40 percent of the sum total. Do these AI hosts pull from those reviews? We've reached out to Amazon and will update this post if we hear back. Each audio summary will remind you that it was generated by AI, just before an introduction from the "expert" hosts. Amazon says these hosts are "like having helpful friends discuss potential purchases to make your shopping easier." You might be able to try this out right now. It's currently available to some US customers on the mobile app for certain products, like this Ninja Blender , OSEA Undaria Algae Body Oil , SHOKZ OpenRun Pro headphones and a couple of other items. Just tap the "Hear the highlights" button under the product. Amazon has stated it'll be rolling this out to more customers and more products in the near future. I can see this being a boon for those with visual impairment issues, but I listened to a couple of summaries and they certainly don't save any time. I could peruse reviews, look at product information and even conduct a web search of my own in a fraction of the time it took the friendly experts to complete their spiel. The company says this feature is useful when "multitasking or on the go" but I don't tend to mindlessly spend money in that way. Do you? This seems like another AI thingamabob that nobody really asked for, but maybe it'll find a niche somewhere. Again, this could be seriously useful for the visually impaired, but that's not how Amazon is pitching it. If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Yahoo
Our Favorite Bone Conduction Headphones Are Under $100 at Best Buy, but Only for Today
We're still pretty early in the year, which means that a lot of us are trying to make things like getting out running more often stick in 2025. If you need a bit of motivation, then some high-quality running earbuds can really help. And thanks to an excellent deal at Best Buy, you can currently get the excellent Shokz OpenRun bone conduction headphones at $60 off, which means they're down to just $100. You even get three months of YouTube Premium and four months of SiriusXM thrown in for free. Bone-conduction headphones are fascinating because they allow you to hear your music incredibly clearly even without anything in or over your ears. Instead, the sound waves travel along your cheekbones to your ear drum. For a lot of folks, they're more comfortable, especially got working out in, and they can help you stay more aware of your surroundings, too. Hey, did you know? CNET Deals texts are free, easy and save you money. Shokz pioneered the open-ear headphone design and makes some of the best bone-conduction headphones around. CNET voted the OpenRun Pro the best overall bone-conduction headphone in 2024, and they've not been knocked off that perch yet in 2025. With incredible sound quality, up to 10 hours of battery life and a quick recharge rate (five minutes of charging gets you up to 90 minutes of battery life), there's a lot to like about these headphones. Read more: Is Your New Years Resolution to Exercise More? Try Running With iOS 18 However, if this pair doesn't quite meet your needs, you can check out our roundup of other headphones deals happening now, for more options that can save you some cash. We like these headphones a lot, and while a little quirky for some, they offer an interesting way to listen to music that's really comfortable for a lot of people. They're also great for workouts and outdoor runs or dog walks, and while we like them at full price, we like them even more with $60 off. The deal only applies to the Best Buy-exclusive steel blue color, with others remaining at $160. It's also worth noting that Shokz recently launched a new set of true wireless earbuds at CES if you don't like the bone-conduction tech so much.
