Amazon exec: Alexa should be able to talk to Siri

NEW YORK-- Alexa and Siri, rival voice assistants on Amazon's Echo and Apple's iPhone, don't directly communicate with one another. But the Amazon executive in charge of Alexa and the Amazon Echo said he'd welcome the idea. "You should be able to tell Alexa, ask Siri X,'" said David Limp, senior vice president of devices at Amazon. "If Apple or Google want to come calling, my phone number is out there, they can call...I don't know if I can envision it but I hope that will happen on behalf of customers," Limp told a group of journalists at the Wired Business Conference Wednesday in New York. Limp has a strong interest in Apple's entry into the voice-activated, artificially-intelligent infused speaker space, which also includes Google Home and Microsoft's Cortana on the Harmon Kardon Invoke speaker.