Digital Assistants Include Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home/Alexa and Similar Software Power Third-Party Developers

Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are competing to offer the best voice-activated systems that can do anything from reporting the time and weather, to playing music on request, to performing web searches, to telling jokes, to making purchases from internet sites and operating appliances and thermostats. These platforms utilize the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to become more useful over time. Apple’s Siri is available on iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and through an app in some vehicles.

Google Now is an app available on a variety of mobile devices as is Microsoft’s Cortana app. Amazon’s Alexa web app is installed on a gadget called Amazon Echo that sits on a countertop, desk or shelf. Alexa software can be installed on other devices as well. Google offers a similar device called Google Home. All of these apps and platforms are voice-activated and use connections to other apps and systems to find information and take actions, through voice-activation. In appropriately equipped smart homes, they can connect with apps relating to climate control, lighting and/or security enabling users to simply say, for example, “Set home temperature to 72 degrees,” or “Activate alarm system,” and have the action performed, even from remote locations. Amazon offers an extensive line of such smart home devices, and Google offers smart devices such as speakers, displays, thermostats and cameras.

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