Meet echo. Hi!
This is Amazon's speaker, powered by Alexa the company's digital personal assistant.
It can connect to smart devices in your home, play music and even allow you to
order items from Amazon, just by speaking to it. The e-commerce giant launched the
device two years ago in the US and it's finally bringing it to the UK and Germany.
Our aspiration is to be everywhere that Amazon exists and more on every device.
Its Amazon's attempt to be at the center of your home so you can do things like this
alexa tell me a joke. why are the Middle Ages sometimes called the dark ages?
because they had so many nights.
Amazon, Google Apple and Microsoft are all
betting that we'll be talking to devices a lot more in the future to help us with
things in our everyday life, which is why they're investing in artificial intelligence.
Smart speakers have a lot of hard technology challenges. 2 that we'd
call out are localization so that the voice sounds really natural in every country,
and the other is getting very good web search results.
Alexa can answer basic questions and carry out simple tasks but the tech is only going to get smarter.
I just think Alexa will become more and more conversational,
natural, like a human interaction.
Alexa stop!