Alexa Virtual Assistant UnBundled From Echo by Amazon

Alexa and Echo have been made available by Amazon for third party developers to create products out of it.

Amazon has provided a legit and strengthened answer to the desire of many who wish to see a boarder hardware and software support when it comes to Alexa, the virtual assistant of the e-commerce giant and also Echo. It is the first platform where Alexa resides and it is speaker hardware.

Latest Amazon news is about the announcement that it has made regarding the API respective to Alexa which provides ability to third party developers be able to build the support for this system in their apps; in order to integrate Alexa with connected hardware, Alexa Voice Service is the product and when it comes to experiences that are voice powered being integrated into the app, Alexa Fund is the name.

When it comes to Echo, it is quite a curious device, however, the first of its kind to be declared the device that demonstrates the potential of voice based computing in quite a promising manner. The hardware is strong; features that are being offered are very useful and the voice recognition is very efficient. With the way it has opened up the developer tools to the third parties, the company will see more transformation to it which might be astonishing.

The Alexa Skills Kit enables the virtual assistant who bridges between the individuals’ apps and software and also that of big companies’ to be connected to Echo only by the means of a little code for the service to get started. Amazon news reports that it is free of cost and programmers can play around with the service by enabling Alexa to retrieve the menu posted for lunch at the school of their child with merely a voice command.

The Alexa Voice Services provides the ability for the users to get Alexa and have the leverage of making it into another hardware product for them, pointing to the fact that it is unbundled, officially, from Echo. This means that a bedside alarm clock or charging station for iPhone that is able to listen for and understand the voice commands from Alexa. Even the users can create a vending machine out of it for the customers to be served as per their request. This is to be noticed that it is quite a bold move and the fact that the e-commerce giant is planning to own the voice-powered computing across the globe.

There are a few launch partners for the service to be provided, namely, Scout and Toymail. Scout is responsible for building the assistant integrated into its solution for home security. Toymail is going to incorporate it into its connected toys for kids.