Amazon Opens Up Echo's Alexa To Developers

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:25PM from the talk-to-the-speaker dept.

mikejuk writes: Amazon announced Echo, a wireless speaker with a built-in, voice-controlled, personal assistant called Alexa last year. Now it appears Alexa will no longer be tied exclusively to Echo. Amazon has announced that the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the cloud-based service behind Echo, is being made available for free to third party hardware makers who want to integrate Alexa into their devices. To propel developers and hardware manufacturers interest in voice technology and their adoption of Alexa, Amazon has also announced a $100 Million Alexa Fund, open to anyone, startups to established brands, with an innovative idea for using voice technology.

2 of 26 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:I got email spam about this before it was on he by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-25 17:18 · Score: 3, Funny

You're an android developer, you probably just signed up for it while you were high.
Re:Alexa by wannabgeek · 2015-06-26 03:13 · Score: 2

I'm glad for you. I tried Amazon Fire TV stick and it sucks pretty bad - making me suspicious of Amazon's competence at software. Didn't even try Echo.

--
I'm much more funny, interesting and insightful than the moderators think