Amazon on Wednesday made the AI and voice - recognition software that
powers the company's Alexa virtual assistant available to all its cloud - computing customers.Called Amazon Lex, the service will allow developers to make
chat bot
applications using Alexa's voice recognition technology and leverage the AI's deep learning abilities to enable their apps to understand more text and speech queries.Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said that Amazon's cloud - based work in processing how humans write and speak would make
chat bots more helpful than the clunky tools they've been in the past.