Voice assistant (Siri) and smart speaker (Amazon Echo)
Asistente de voz (Siri) y altavoz inteligente (Amazon Echo)
- Date
- 2011-2014 · confidence high
- Place
- Apple, Cupertino (Siri, 2011), and Amazon, Seattle (Echo, 2014), United States
- Credited to
- SRI and Siri Inc. (Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer), acquired by Apple; Amazon (Alexa)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Systems that recognise natural speech in the cloud and carry out commands or answer questions, built into the phone or a home speaker. They introduced voice as an everyday interface.
What it led to
- The connected home and voice-controlled home automation
- Always-on microphones and the debate over domestic privacy
- The generative AI assistants that are replacing them
Built on
Made possible
- Smart home (Nest thermostat, domestic IoT)2011-2014
- voice-controlled home automation
- Voice-based ChatGPT