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Amazon Opens Up Echo's Alexa To Developers

Posted by samzenpus on 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.

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  1. Re:I got email spam about this before it was on he by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're an android developer, you probably just signed up for it while you were high.