Last September, Amazon made sure that smart devices were compatible with a number of digital assistants simultaneously with the goal of announcing this voice-over connection before its annual collapse event. About a year later, the coalition has the support of more than 70 companies, including Facebook, Garmin and Xiaomi, which recently joined. So far, Amazon’s subsidiary has joined Amazon’s Pal, No, Google and Samsung – Amazon’s biggest competitors.
The goal of Amazon’s Voice is Interpretability initiative is for companies to create smart devices that simultaneously support multiple voice assistants, such as Alexa or Cortana. But without Alexa Pal, Google and Samsung’s voice assistants (Siri, Google Assistant and Bixby), Alexa’s biggest rival, the idea seems empty. They’ve got 70+ companies on board, but they seem to be missing things.
The announcement of three new members does not seem to be a big deal for Amazon’s initiative, as each company already supports Alexa:
Oddly enough, Apple Paul and Google have no problem working together on an open source smart home platform with Amazon Zone, which is expected to launch next year. But that initiative doesn’t require Apple Pal and Google to potentially let additional assistants like Alexa on their smartphones. (Either way, Amazon didn’t have much luck with the phone).
The e-commerce giant also announced today that it has released new guidelines to help manufacturers create new devices that support more than one device.
