We have grown up with poor voice recognition and error prone requests on our mobile devices but Amazon started a full 12 months before Google on developing a high-precision microphone and voice recognition system that is built into its marketplace ecosystem. You can order pizza, pay a credit card bill, order books, check your diary, as well as listen to music and news. You can also ask and use the IFTTT integration function to also link to many home smart appliances across many brands such as switch lights on, set and check home security, switch hot water and heating on or off and control fridges, cookers, TVs and many other things all by simple voice commands.