Amazon Echo Latest Innovation – Alexa Skills for Pets
Amazon today unveiled another industry first for the Echo, Alexa skills for Pets. Amazon virtually created the market for home-based consumer voice assistants that dominate today’s conversation. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a Recode interview last year that where we are with Alex and voice assistants:
It’s the tip of the iceberg of what you can do…it’s the first inning. It might even be that the first guy is up at bat.
Well, it appears that a “cat” may be the second one up at bat. This market is moving faster than a Greyhound. The flexibility of the Alexa voice model is astounding in that it can now distinguish animal sounds in addition to human speech. The natural language understanding of pet communication is a break-through technology that would amaze even Dr. Doolittle. This opens of an entirely new market for Alexa use and should positively impact Amazon’s share price. You can see the full demo released today by Amazon below.
