Introducing the ASK
In 2014, Amazon introduced voice interaction capabilities such as setting an alarm, playing music, streaming podcasts, playing audio books, and providing traffic and weather reports through Amazon Echo devices. In order to make Amazon Echo extensible through third-party applications, the ASK was introduced as a software developer kit. The ASK processes natural language spoken to Amazon Echo devices. Just as Dialogflow processes the speech of users received from Google Home devices into machine-understandable code, the ASK will do the exact same thing for Amazon Echo devices. By 2017, Alexa had grown to having over 5,000 employees working on it and the adoption of Alexa continues to grow, grabbing 70% of the market share ...
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