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La croissance des skills d'Alexa montre des signes de ralentissement , avec une comparaison par pays du nombre de skills développées : Les US sont devant, viennent ensuite UK et Inde. Ces données ne concernent pas les données d'usage des skills par jour. La croissance des skills ne dit pas une augmentation de la valeur d'usage de ces skills. Ces données peuvent montrer l'enthousiasme des développeurs pour cette av.

La graal de la voix selon Amazon : avoir une conversation sans y avoir pensé en terme de programmation de bout en bout. Un film- the night out scenario présenté lors de cette rencontre montre une conversation fluide avec alexa pour commander et réserver plusieurs choses : une place de cinéma, un diner et un taxi. L'objectif est de faire accomplir par l'assistant vocal des taches complexes incorporant plusieurs "skills" et permettant de réduire le nombre d'itérations pour faire des tâches comme réserver une place de cinéma ou commander à manger. La voix définira les contours de la technologie des 10 prochaines années. Je veux utiliser le même assistant sur tous les supports (devices) et non par support : l'assistant de la voiture, l'assistant de la télé,...

"Amazon announced that it has expanded the option to monetize Alexa skills to Japan late last week. Japan will be only the second country, after the U.S., to allow developers to add in-skill purchasing as an Alexa skill feature."

"-Smart speakers are not broadly useful-most users only use them for a few things-music, timers, alarms, and, in some cases, home automation scenarios. - Voice-only situations are limiting in cases where a visual or hybrid mode is required - media, entertainment, shopping, etc. - Engagement levels with third-party skills are very low (skills offer limited functionality and skills syntax is hard to remember). "I'm sorry, I don't know that" and other Alexa failures are no longer entertaining, but rather frustrating. Even Amazon acknowledges this [https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazon-alexa-kills-skills,news-28072.html] - Smart speakers are NOT ubiquitous-the speaker on my kitchen counter is not in my car nor in my office!" "Apps - do we need to reinvent the wheel?" "Most people already have their banking, communications, social networking, navigation, travel and payment apps in their smartphones. They already know how to use them (simple). They already know which ones to use for what purpose-Slack for work, WhatsApp for friends, Messenger for family (user choice). They've already registered and set them up and they provide control over what information goes where-for instance, their portfolio may be in their banking app, their contacts are on the phone. They know which app sees what data (privacy). They also trust apps to protect them and their data. Imagine a voice assistant platform that just allows users to use the apps they already use-on-the-go - anytime, anywhere-with simple voice commands, without having to register these service relationships again, and without waiting for the developers to have to reinvent the wheel to plug into the platform. We must embrace mobile app actions as first-class citizens. We should be able to do things in our mobile apps with simple voice commands. We must provide user choice and personalize user experience without registration and without compromising privacy and trust."

" the company this morning announced an invite-only program allowing select developers to create and launch HIPAA-compliant healthcare skills for Alexa. The skills allow consumers to ask the virtual assistant for help with things like booking an appointment, accessing hospital post-discharge instructions, checking on the status of a prescription delivery and more." HIPAA > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act

"Patients can tell Alexa to ask for specific help, such as pain medication or assistance using the bathroom. The skill will then send their request to their nurse via a mobile device and a tablet at the nurse's station. For patients unable to find or reach the standard call button, a voice-activated system can be a real boon. And, because the specifics of the request are shared, the skill is more efficient than a call button. Nurses will know what the patient needs before they arrive and its severity - if it's an emergency or a less life-threatening need. "

Des app aux skills... les modèles économiques en jeu... quelles rémunérations pour les développeurs dans ce nouvel écosystème d'interfaces vocales ?

"Amazon's popular voice assistant Alexa ended 2018 with 40,000 developers in India and 20,000-plus skills as the US retail giant raced to capture the smart speaker market in the country." ""We want Alexa to be everywhere. We want anybody, through a voice command, to do any task. Alexa's engineering team builds alarms and shopping lists, but a lot of customer experiences can be built by developers. We don't want to restrict Alexa skills building to only Amazon," said Dilip RS, country manager for Alexa skills, Amazon India."

"[...]Alexa Conversations, a new deep learning-based approach that developers can use for creating natural voice experiences on Alexa with less effort, fewer lines of code, and less training data than before. This new model helps developers create natural, flexible dialogs within a single skill and in the upcoming releases brings multiple skills into a single conversation. Alexa Conversations is now available in developer preview in the US."

"As the number of Alexa devices has exploded, so too have the skills. Amazon now counts 70,000 of them in its stable, from quizzes to games to meditation and more. That's seven times the number it had just under two years ago. It's here, though, that Alexa's room for improvement begins to show. The assistant has gotten better at anticipating what skills people might want to use, but discovery remains a real problem."

"Cela signifie que dorénavant, les développeurs français pourront être rémunérés pour développer les compétences les plus populaires d'Alexa." [...] "Le nombre de Skills créées par les développeurs français est assez élevé, mais rien de comparable aux 59 750 Skills qui ont été créés aux États-Unis en 2018. Dont « Song ID », la nouvelle fonctionnalité d'Alexa qui permet d'identifier une chanson avant qu'elle ne se lance, ou encore « Alexa Mobile Accessory », qui permet à l'enceinte connectée de vous suivre partout, même en voiture."

"There are a few fundamental reasons why voice shopping has huge potential.[...] - It's faster. We can speak faster than we can type, so using voice is typically quicker than any other modality. For example, in 2018, Virgin Trains in the UK launched an Alexa skill that lets customers book train tickets through Alexa. It takes the average booking time down from 7 minutes online to 2 minutes via voice. The potential to save time is always something that appeals to customers. - It's frictionless. No matter how user-friendly you make your website or app, no matter how much you work on your conversion rate, you're always battling the inherent friction that's built into the device itself. [...] [but] there are challenges for retailers, including: - Data ownership. If you choose to use one of the top two platforms, Alexa or Google Assistant, then they'll ultimately have visibility into all of your skill or action activity, including what your users are asking for and buying. That's pretty compelling competitive intelligence. - Commission. For a truly seamless experience, you'll need to use a native payment service, like Amazon Pay or Google Pay. For that, there's a charge. - Competition. Amazon's aim is to be the place where you can buy anything online. That means that, whether or not you compete with Amazon today, you might tomorrow. Second, there are challenges for consumers, including: - Difficulty browsing. Although we can speak faster than we can type, it's quicker to scan a list of search results than it is to listen to those results read back audibly. This means that general browsing, a common product research behavior, is a challenge on voice. - Difficulty discovering possibilities. Discovering voice applications is a challenge. So finding out what shopping facilities exist on voice and understanding how to access them can be a challenge for some. - Cognitive load. There's also a cognitive load placed on the user in order to access a t

"Unless there is a strong enough economic argument, don't expect big companies to rush into producing Welsh, Gaelic or Cornish speech systems. Even tech giant Samsung hasn't yet managed to produce a UK-English speaking version of their Bixby assistant (international English speakers need to speak to it in fake American accents to get it to work). " "Research on brain-like learning algorithms may just hold the key here. This is technology that can continually learn during use, just like humans learn to speak a new language. It is unlike most current AI systems that are trained in the lab, before being let loose in the wild - apart from a few exceptions some, like Microsoft's Tay, notable for their spectacular failures. Future systems will be able to gradually acquire skills in a second language just by having users gradually introduce more and more of that language in their daily interactions. Rather than funding research into Welsh speech AI, the Welsh government may well do better by backing research into this new kind of adaptive learning technology."

Karine Del Medico d'EDF "La deuxième appli vocale, nommée « EDF & Moi » et elle aussi disponible depuis juin 2018, offre des conseils aux clients sur les économies d'énergie et leur permet de poser des questions sur leur contrat, ainsi que de demander à recevoir une attestation de contrat par email. « Un point important pour nous car beaucoup de clients nous appellent pour cette raison. Avec cette 'skill', nous pouvons donc réaliser des gains de productivité. »"

"With the introduction of smart assistants that can interact with users, interactive fiction has been an intriguing possibility for game developers and publishers."

"The Spring 2019 Smart Audio Report revealed new smart speaker user behaviors and trends among the 21% of U.S. adults - 53M people - who own smart speakers today. The latest research from NPR and Edison uncovers security concerns among both smart speaker owners and non-owners, and challenges in discovery of new smart speaker functions or skills. But despite these challenges, smart speaker owners continue to integrate the device in their everyday routines: 69% of smart speaker owners use their device daily."

"Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they're asleep without touching them. A new skill for a smart speaker - like Google Home and Amazon Alexa - or smartphone lets the device detect the gasping sound of agonal breathing and call for help. "

"Nous élaborons des applications vocales pour des enceintes intelligentes Notre agence vous conseille, développe et vous accompagne sur les étapes de création de vos applications vocales sur Google Home / Google assistant (Actions on Google) & Alexa (Skills). "

"Parental supervision via voice assistant won't be limited to what happens at home. Amazon announced that it will roll out new Alexa education skills in partnership with education tech companies like Blackboard, Canvas, and Coursera. Students, and their parents, will shortly be able to ask Alexa about homework or for updates posted by teachers on those platforms to stay up to date on classroom activities." "Amazon wants to increase its market share among children, and make them loyal to the voice assistant at an early age. But with children, parents are the gatekeepers. It remains to be seen if the family-friendly features and increased transparency are enough for parents to trust Alexa interacting with their children after the many privacy breaches. If successful, it could set the template for how voice assistant developers approach the market for the younger audience. Still, there's no guarantee any of it will be enough to appease worried parents or head off the kind of regulation Amazon and other voice assistant makers want to limit."

"A day ahead of its annual fall hardware event, Amazon is making a big partnership announcement: it has created the Voice Interoperability Initiative, which is sort of a statement of intent from over 30 different companies that they will strive to ensure devices will work with multiple digital assistants at the same time. For example, you could talk to either Alexa or Cortana on the same smart speaker simply by saying the appropriate wake word." "The idea, these companies hope, is that there will be two kinds of assistants. One type will be broad in its knowledge and capabilities (think Alexa, Siri, and Google), but others will be narrow and deep, context-specific to their domain of knowledge. The goal is to make it possible to directly talk to any of them on a smart speaker without the need for an intermediate skill." "Limp likens his vision for voice assistants to browsers: you can use whatever browser you want to go to whatever website you want, so why can't you use whatever speaker you want to talk to any assistant you want? "