A new report by The Information states that Apple is now working on an Amazon Echo competitor which will be operated via Siri, the company’s AI personal voice assistant rumored to also be coming to the Mac in OS X 10.12.
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Apple is reportedly working on a siri-powered competitior to the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
Apple will make its software development kits (SDK) open to all third-party developers that want to give Siri access to their apps, The Information reports.
The report says that Apple’s physical entry into the game will take the form of another speaker, according to the report, “that people can use to turn on music, get news headlines or set a timer”.
Apple has considered several options – turning the existing Apple TV into a more comprehensive assistant, making the Apple TV’s Siri Remote the key device, or even building a standalone speaker just like Echo.
Apple may be considering opening up Siri to other developers. In that report we noted that Google Home was like Amazon’s Echo meets Apple TV.
Despite the success that Google’s Alexa has had, Apple’s speaker would have the advantage of being multilingual, as Alexa is limited to English while Siri comes with a variety of languages. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will soon allow software developers to connect their app to Siri.
Currently, these voice control-based services by Apple are being served singlehandedly by the company’s “intelligent assistant”, which goes by the name Siri.
HomeKit is Apple’s own iteration of connected home devices.
Not only Apple has its Amazon Echo’s rival.
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Finally Apple is going to do something bigger with Siri who has lost it’s charm in recent years. In March, rumors began flowing that Google was working on its own such Echo competitor in a voice-activated product that is under development.
