It's Official: Amazon is Putting Alexa to Work in the Office - InformationWeek

It's no surprise that Amazon plans to push its Alexa speech recognition capability beyond the home where Alexa-powered Echo-connected speakers are used by millions of people to order take out, buy stuff from Amazon.com, order Uber rides, and play music, all using voice control. Everywhere, the home, the car, the office," Tom Taylor, Amazon's senior vice president of Alexa told a session at the company's annual AWS RE:Invent conference in Las Vegas last week. The Seattle Mariners, for example, installed Alexa in the 56 luxury suites at Safeco Field so customers can easily order food and drinks, Charlie Kindel, director of Alexa Home, noted during the same session. So, Alexa is already showing up in the workplace. Last year AWS made two key pieces of technology available to software builders to use however they wanted They were Amazon Lex for incorporating speech recognition into software and Polly, which does the same with text-to-speech recognition.