Amazon has expanded its lead with the popular home Echo speaker, introduced in late 2014. Now that Amazon is hoping for a new service, Alexa for Business, that's on the go, can spur a lot of voice over the office, the online retailer, The announcement was made at the annual cloud services conference.
Prior to Amazon's move into business, Capital Markets predicted that the company will have 128 million Alexa devices on the market by 2020. According to the company, the voice-activated Internet will generate more than $ 10 billion in revenue for Amazon over the same period.
However, it remains to be seen how many companies will want to buy Echo loudspeakers for each meeting room or to design programs for untested technology in the office, and the company may not want employees to talk to the device in crowded offices, Secrets, Amazon has said its Echo device will not send any messages to the cloud without permission unless the user wakes up the device with Alexa.