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Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) chief technology officer is working toward a day when people can control almost any piece of software with their voice.
The company on Wednesday rolled out the technology powering Alexa, its voice assistant that competes with Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Siri, to developers so they can build chat features into their own apps, CTO Werner Vogels said in an interview. The service, Amazon Lex, was in a preview phase since late 2016.
[...] Processing vast quantities of data is key to artificial intelligence, which lets voice assistants decode speech. Amazon will take the text and recordings people send to apps to train Lex - as well as Alexa - to understand more queries.
That could help Amazon catch up in data collection. As popular as Amazon's Alexa-powered devices are, such as Echo speakers, the company has sold an estimated 10 million or more. Apple has sold hundreds of millions of iPhones and other devices with Siri.
[...] As with other cloud-based services, Amazon will charge developers based on how many text or voice requests Lex processes.
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-rolls-chatbot-tools-race-181632556.html
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:04AM (1 child)
short headlines suck.
Back in the day I thought voice recognition would be A Good Thing (tm). Then I found out companies wanted to use my questions to invade the hell out of my privacy.
/ not a single voice recognition thing is in my household
// including my phone.
/// I'll take the extra 10 seconds to text type, thank yew verry much
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:39AM
TNG era, you say. OK. This Dilbert strip ran the day before TNG season 7 episode 21 "Firstborn"
"Well, look who got a voice-controlled computer." [dilbert.com]