Impressive. But what is more important, the ability to be a working part of an IOT, or to be further along creeping towards conversational intelligence? In the latter, I believe that today Google Assistant is ahead. I have both installed and being used. And they are connected to some twenty devices in my smart home. Also more impressed with the support Amazon gives to skill developers. Thus probably their being advanced in the skill count. Though they do pay too much attention to quantity rather than quality of skill results. Send me skills that advance conversational intelligence, and can be connected with other skills to dive that. More from IFA show:
Amazon’s Alexa now works with 20,000+ different devices by Duncan Riley in SiliconAngle
Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa everywhere strategy is paying off. The company said Saturday that its smart assistant now works with more than 20,000 different devices.
Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon’s Smart Home group, revealed the number to an audience at the IFA tech show in Berlin Saturday along with a number of other insights into just how well the strategy has been working.
Just this year, Rausch is reported as saying, “Alexa has sung Happy Birthday millions of times to customers, and she’s told over 100 million jokes.”
Rausch said that Alexa-enabled devices have grown from working with an already impressive 4,000 devices at the beginning of the year to more than 20,000 devices while at the same time brands working with Alexa nearly tripled, from 1,200 to 3,500. ... "
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