As speculation that Spotify is planning its own smart speaker product continues to mount, TechCrunch today highlights that the music streaming service is quietly testing an in -
app voice assistant feature.
Google and Amazon invest heavily in a broad range
of voice assistant features and count thousands of independent developers as partners building out ecosystem capabilities.
Another voice assistant feature common on smart speakers is the ability to just speak to invoke Alexa.
It is another example of Amazon rolling out
voice assistant features that others have only announced.
The voice assistant feature has further been improvised with features like introducing 2 new voices, fluent language voice over & translation, music related commands.
There appear to be five models from their previous lineup that are slated to receive an update to enable
the voice assistant feature.
We like to focus on
the voice assistant features because they are new.
Even though the HomePod is a relatively underwhelming smart speaker in terms of
voice assistant features, Apple's brand loyalty is probably second to none, so devout fans will most likely flock Apple stores to buy this speaker.
Koh said that Bixby 2.0 is currently being tested by around 800 partners and so will be able to support a «wider scope of
voice assistant features».
Samsung will be offering Bixby reminder, home and vision features,
the voice assistant feature for now will be disabled.