Amazon yesterday released the first quarter ended March 31 this year. Profits for four consecutive quarters this time, Amazon announced a net profit of $ 513 million. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Amazon sells the best products are those of Amazon's own hardware. In addition to the Fire outside the flat, Fire TV TV stick, Bezos also refers to intelligent speakers Echo on sale more than a year, he said: "Echo off to an incredible start, though we tried, but it still falls short of demand. "
From a profile view, Echo the speaker is a little black pillars, on the table not too much, but compared to other intelligent speech assistants like Siri, which is characterized by visible, tangible.
Although Amazon has not released specific sales figures of Echo, but often out of stock for sale, launched the Echo sound from the FirePhone of the shadow of failure, possibly to Amazon the next $ 1 billion business.
During last year's Black Friday, Echo was higher than the $ 100 price points sell best in electronic devices. Also during the Christmas period, Echo became a member through the "Prime Now," an hour Express features one of the ordered product.
Echo's easy to use and easy to learn, all you have to do is say the word "Alexa", it will work. Compared to Apple's Siri and Google Now, its speech recognition capabilities more intuitive. Despite the initial Echo function not much, just add a weather forecast, schedule, music and the like, but since the listing, which has been constantly acquiring new skills.
Echo feedback interface
Years, Echo has become the voice control the entrance to the smart home, even the brain was supposed to be a Google smart home Nest access Alexa Assistant.
The summer of 2015, Amazon announced that Alexa is AVS (Amazon Voice Services) are open to developers, developers can integrate Alexa in the own hardware voice Assistant, many companies, including Ford, have announced plans to explore the Alexa. In order to encourage more developers to Alexa voice capabilities, Amazon Alexa Fund was established, the introduction of a free developer software development kit Alexa Skills Kit (ASK). VR Shinecon headset
New voice features, access to third party services called Alexa skills (skills)
Echo in the music player is also compatible with streaming music service Spotify, Pandora, etc. You can tell it to play a single song or a song, without cutting the phone enter the text to search for, as speaker of the Echo is very convenient to use.
Even though Amazon Prime Music services, but Spotify's music library is about 30 times the Amazon itself. Amazon does not Echo in selling music service tool, but rather as a connecting service entrance.
Echo music on the mobile phone application can also control
In contrast, Siri can do just a little something. Siri is also adding new features, but also come with the big update of the iOS system. Alexa's "skills" is constantly on the increase. virtual reality headset
Listing a year, Echo has learned to read fiction, Uber called car, called dameinuo's Pizza, even combined with the Batman movies with user speech exploring the game.
When you open Siri much? Still hit it off?
Recently, a kitchen named Triby speaker has built-in Alexa phonetic Assistant, users can also use Alexa or Amazon to wake it up, use voice commands to let it put on some music, set a kitchen timer, or control home lighting.
This is just a start. Next, there will be more home appliances, hardware and even car with Alexa intelligent voice Assistant. Alexa is an Internet service portal from the start, Siri is still stuck on the Apple hardware support for, say, is more like artificial intelligence that Siri was originally called entity little black guy.
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