Amazon buys Evi, the competitor of Siri: closer the Kindle Phone? - Macity

Into Amazon Bought Evi, the virtual personal assistant built by True Knowledge and initially considered one of the earliest opponents of Siri voice assistant in the market based on natural language.

Amazon is gearing up to offer its users a personal voice assistant, according to some unnamed sources of TechCrunch, the Seattle company has purchased towards the end of 2012 Evi, application released by True Knowledge and technology-based Nuance and direct competitor to Siri.

Into According to what reported by the site, Amazon would operate in secret purchase by paying $ 26 million to Octopus Ventures, an investment firm that had funded the project. Despite Octopus Ventures Trinceri in the privacy to speak out are the key positions of Evi Technologies Ltd today occupied by the legal representatives of Amazon, a figure considered incontrovertible to define who is boss in the company today.

Into The decision to purchase by Amazon makes it more plausible the possibility that the company will soon release a “Kindle Phone” with a virtual assistant staff, as well as any extensions also on Kindle devices already on the market, the first among all the Kindle Fire.

Into Evi is currently still available on the App Store and Google Play, in the iOS version does not support the Italian language.

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