IDG Contributor Network: Is voice the 'killer app' for consumer IoT?
Having a background in wave mechanics and tenure in the world of audio, I was fascinated by Amazon Echo when it first came out: I was one of the first buyers and haven’t looked back. Millions of happy "Alexa-ites" are out there. Membership in this new acoustically-enabled club is getting so large that it's prompted similar product launches by Google, Microsoft and other tech titans.
And then came CES
According to some estimates, over 1,100 Alexa-enabled products were shown at the convention. It seems that Alexa was the Belle of the Ball. And tying her royalness into this year’s major theme, the Connected Car, some automakers announced that they've fallen under Alexa's A.I.-enabled spell. To me this is terrific, since that means ever more opportunities to utter my desires and cause things to happen within my own fiefdom.
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