Alexa
Bright Idea: Take That, Alexa
Kitt.Ai adds voice control to other residential or business devices.
Xuchen Yao and Guoguo Chen were interns at Google working on language-processing technology when Amazon introduced Echo, the media-streaming device equipped with a voice-activated intelligent assistant, which is triggered when the user says the hotword Alexa. When Alexa came out, we saw a real opening, says Yao, who cofounded Kitt.ai to capitalize on the opportunity….