Forget The Finger, It’s Becoming All About That Voice
Another data point that the input interface is moving past hardware (keyboard, mouse, trackpad and screen) to voice. If you’ve been cooking and your hands are coated in raw chicken meat, you know the power of the voice interface associated with Amazon’s Echo and Apple’s Siri. We see far more potential as the Connected Home and Connected Car markets mature.
Amazon, though, has much bigger plans for the technology behind Echo. It wants the Alexa Voice Service, which powers Echo, to be an ingredient in devices around the home and beyond, even if they aren’t made by Amazon.
The vision of an omnipresent intelligent assistant is one Amazon shares, in one form or another, with most other big technology companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft. Along with a handful of start-ups, these companies see their intelligent assistants as powerful new ways for users to interact with devices and internet services — just as smartphone touch screens were.
Source: Amazon Has Big Plans for Alexa: Running the ‘Star Trek’ Home – NYTimes.com
