It’s no abstruse that Amazon wants its Alexa articulation abettor to be in as abounding places about the home as possible. With the latest developer tools, however, Amazon additionally wants Alexa in the kitchen and wearables.
First up is the Acute Home Accomplishment API, which lets Alexa accomplish its way to bake ovens. With the new skills, you can ask Alexa to set bake baker times, modes, ability levels, and added instead of borer abroad at buttons. Added specifically, you can affair commands like, “Alexa, defrost three pounds of chicken” and “Alexa, bake for 50 abnormal on high.”
Amazon says Whirlpool already created an Alexa accomplishment application the kitchen-oriented API and will accept it accessible for its microwaves ancient soon. The retail behemothic additionally said GE Appliances, Kenmore, LG and Samsung are alive on leveraging the Acute Home Accomplishment API for their ovens and added kitchen appliances. We could see these accessories as aboriginal as abutting anniversary during CES 2018.
As for how applied the bake commands are, I’m not sure. Alike with the new articulation commands, you still accept to put aliment in the microwave, so all this does is save you from acute buttons. We additionally don’t apperceive how able-bodied microwaves and ovens will accept articulation input, but the big account is to get Alexa in the kitchen.
Amazon doesn’t stop there, as there are additionally developer accoutrement that acquiesce Alexa to assignment on assorted Bluetooth-connected wearables, including headphones, smartwatches, fettle trackers, and added audio devices.
One in particular, the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit, is already actuality acclimated by the brand of Bose, Jabra, iHome, Linkplay, Sugr, Libre Wireless, Beyerdynamic, and Bowers and Wilkins. Bose, in particular, formed with Amazon to body and architecture the kit, which will be accessible to developers ancient this summer.
The developer accoutrement not alone acquiesce Amazon to get Alexa into as abounding wearables as possible, but additionally acquiesce wearable makers to accumulate up with the brand of Apple and Google. Both companies accept angry their basic administration to their own Bluetooth headphones, so it makes faculty for companies not from Cupertino or Mountain View to acquisition a way to abide competitive.
Interestingly, there is addition developer tool, the AVS Device SDK, that lets developers accommodate Alexa into their devices. The aberration is that the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit does not accept Alexa congenital — the accessories application the kit will affix to Alexa by bond with Bluetooth to the Alexa app.
- Amazon’s Acute Home Accomplishment API allows Alexa to accomplish its way to bake ovens and added appliances
- Another set of developer accoutrement acquiesce wearable makers to absorb Alexa into their devices
- Products application the new accoutrement should be accessible ancient soon.
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