Alexa: interoperability for the voice dimension

The Alexa universe is expanding. It happens thanks to a new important series of agreements with which Amazon brings a new series of important names to its voice assistant, such as to extend the perimeter within which it will bea> enough to say the name "Alexa" to get in touch with services and assistance. intelligent that the Amazon Echo have made known to the world. But it is an open world, made up of interoperability and coexistence of multiple assistants on the same device: an appreciable principle, on which Amazon will try to build its leadership in the sector for the years to come.

Voice Interoperability Initiative: 77 members

The project is that of the Voice Interoperability Initiative, which provides for the support of multiple voice agents, simultaneously, on the same device. The new ones added to this type of project are names such as:

Dolby Facebook Garmin Xiaomi and others.



Overall in this round, 38 new brands enter the group, arriving so to 77 overall (among these we also report brands such as Accenture, Acer, AMD, BBC, Audi, BMW, Bosch, Bose, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Logitech, Sony, Sonos, Spotify, Tencent, TIM, Verizon, Yamaha) . Amazon believes this type of approach is important because it allows interoperability between multiple systems and the possibility of developing devices that are increasingly attractive to users in a variety of situations. This should make assistants more and more "transparent" in the perception of users, thus bringing more and more people closer to this type of experience and making the voice interaction more and more suited to the needs expressed by individuals.