Amazon releases new development kits that will propel Alexa to more devices

Third party device makers are always getting access to new developer tools from Amazon that enable them easily integrate Alexa into their products and 2018 will be no different. Alexa, Amazon’s digital assistant is the leader in its class and the company seems focused on making it easier for any device manufacturer to integrate it into their products.

The digital assistant marketplace has become competitive with giants like Apple and Google angling for a piece of the pie. Other entrants like Samsung and Alibaba bring on board formidable arsenals of technology to reckon with. However, Amazon has a competitive advantage in this space with Alexa boasting over 25,000 skills accumulated so far.

In an announcement, the company will be releasing two new development kits – Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit and Alexa Premium Far-Field Voice Development Kit. The former will focus on smartwatches, fitness trackers, headphones and other mobile devices by enebling them to hook up to Alexa Voice Service, Amazon’s core that uses bluetooth technology to add Alexa to connected devices. The latter will be a single chip with the audio algorithms and wake word engine used by Alexa with the same microphone array configurations found in the Amazon Echo and Echo Show.

Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service has the flexibility of letting manufacturers integrate it into their devices and has been open to developers since 2015 giving Alexa greater penetration and enticing third-party developers to use the Alexa Skills Kit  in building skills relevant to the service. Use of cloud services has also made it easier for developers to write code that can integrate into Alexa’s abilities so that spoken commands are understood more seamlessly.

In order to solidify its market share, Amazon provided to developers the artificial intelligence technology Amazon Lex, which is the engine that powers Alexa. To achieve more in the devices domain, the 7-Mic Voice Processing Technology was also made available to third party hardware manufacturers for integration.

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