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Amazon ...ON THE FUTURE OF... Voice assistants

ERIC KING, GENERAL Manager, Amazon Alexa Europe, has been helping to grow Amazon’s voice services ever since it first opened the system up to developers, and has led the charge for growing the range of Alexa Skills and hardware partners for Amazon Voice Services that have defined Alexa’s rise to the top of the voice-assistant charts.

Are there areas of the tech world that you think voice control would be suited for, but it hasn’t really permeated yet?

Where we see customers adopting voice most aggressively and at the fastest rate is in areas where, frankly, it makes their lives easier – where life is easier when you don’t have to fumble for a phone in order to do something. We see our next logical advancement to that happening in the car. That is an area

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