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Intel is using Alexa for its connected home vision (CNET News)

2017-10-19
until they have missed out on the transition to mobile but it's not planning to let the same thing happen in the smart home company has a vision for the connect at home and a technology plan to back it up Intel already has a few design wins with Amazon's echo product line Intel's atom CPUs power the echo show video chat device and the echo look fashion rising camera the look also has intel's realsense camera technology built in beyond those products Intel sees a future for the smart home where our homes have voice control everywhere visual and audio sensors and fast connectivity both inside and outside the home and a robust artificial intelligence network working in the background to gather up all that sensor data and use it to make our homes hit their full smartness potential to push that effort forward intel has announced a new speech enabling development kit the kit is designed specifically to speed along the development of smart home devices that have Alexa built in included in the kit are two circuit boards one with Intel's audio processing chips another with a set of eight microphones for maximizing voice reception in industry high Intel says the kit could technically work with other voices systems like Syria the glueless system but for now it's exclusive to Alexa in addition to helping developers Intel also has a marketing effort underway to get its name out to consumers in relation to the smart home the Intel smart life roadshow is bringing an Intel and Amazon device outfitted Airstream trailer around 220 cities across the u.s. keep an eye out and you might be able to try out the latest in smart home tech in person
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