INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Amazon is making it easier for hardware makers to add Alexa to their products by lowering the requirements and enabling devices with very
low-powered chips and just 1MB of RAM to run Alexa Voice Service.Alexa Voice Service (AVS) enables developers to access cloud-based Alexa
capabilities with the support of AVS APIs, hardware kits, software tools and documentation
By handling complex speech recognition and natural language understanding in the cloud, Amazon is lowering the barrier to entry for
businesses that want to add Alexa capabilities to their devices.Alexa built-in devices previously required at least 100MB of RAM and an ARM
Now though, the requirement for AVS integration for AWS IoT Core has been lowered to just 1MB and device manufacturers can utilize cheaper
Cortex-M processors.By lowering the hardware requirements needed to add Alexa to a device, Amazon is making it much easier for companies to
build single-purpose devices such as light bulbs and light switches with Alexa functionality.These new devices won't be able to run complex
voice-recognition models and decision engines locally, so all of that work will be done in the cloud
However, these single-purpose devices will still need to be able to detect the wake word to start the Alexa functionality.VP of IoT at AWS,
vast majority of all of this to the cloud
So the device can be ultra dumb
The only thing that the device still needs to do is wake word detection
ambient computing where users just have to speak to their environment and their environment can interact with them.Via TechCrunch
