In Preparation for a talk on Smart Homes

A slide on Alexa UX inconsistency across 1st and 3rd party devices:

Here are the first party apps and devices:

  • Echo
  • Echo Input (full functionality through AUX only)
  • Alexa phone app
  • Alexa PC app
  • Fire TV
  • (there’s also Fire TV tablet, but it has Alexa app on it)

And here are the 3rd party apps and devices:

  • Jabra Elite 65t Ear Buds
  • Vuzix AR Blade
  • Ultimate Alexa app for Android Wear
  • Ecobee4 Smart Thermostat

Update: this was a talk given for my ex-Yandex colleagues and my new friends at DeepPavlov.ai.

Author: Daniel Kornev

CPO at DeepPavlov.ai. Passionate about Conversational AI & Space Exploration. Founded Zet Universe, Inc. Previously worked at Microsoft, Yandex, Google, and Microsoft Research. This is my older blog (circa 2010), the primary one is at https://danielko.medium.com/

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