In the current intelligent voice assistant market, Amazon Alexa's leading position is no one to enemy, behind many Microsoft (Microsoft) and Google can only after struggling to catch up, but the recent pace of both significantly faster, seems to be interested in the new 1 years, in the Voice assistant market to rob more Jiangshan. According to Business Insider, Amazon 2017 has a huge market for intelligent voice assistants, and so far the 68% of America's audio-powered Alexa. Amazon, however, has a dominant position. The reason is likely to be the late arrival of opponents and the lack of a sound developer ecosystem to produce a wide range of skills for voice assistants. Voice assistants have the skills to determine the key to success, in other words, the greater the variety of applications, the more attractive, Alexa is a typical example, currently has 25,000 of skills, far better than Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant. However, Microsoft and Google have made significant improvements, and the Voice assistant market is likely to change over the next 1 years. According to Voicebot.ai, Microsoft's Cortana has 174 apps by October, although it is still far behind the Alexa, but it has grown by 160% since 3 months ago, This rapid ascension is largely thanks to the Cortana's smart sound launch and Microsoft's release of the developer platform. Microsoft launched a Cortana invoke in October, before Microsoft announced in May that it would work with HP to develop Cortana loudspeakers. Microsoft also released Cortana Skills Kit in May, providing a platform for third-party developers to make it easier for them to develop Cortana applications. Google Assistant The situation is not much better than Cortana, but Google has a number of advantages such as a large database, the Android developer community, multi-language support, and so on, it will become assistant fast and robust, and even to catch the Alexa food. The number of Assistant voice apps is only 468, up 54% from 304 in May, still far below Alexa, but according to 360i statistics, Assistant's ability to answer user questions is 6 times times stronger than Alexa, This may be because assistant has Google's Knowledge Graph database backed up behind it. In addition, assistant will say 9 different languages, Google will add 3 languages before the end of the year, in contrast, Alexa will only 3 languages, assistant language talent, may be effective in the voice of the text (speech-to-text) automatic speech recognition ( Automated speech recognition; ASR) feature. Remarkably, although Microsoft and Google's voice assistants have made significant progress recently, their battle for the market may not be easy. Because, Amazon early step into the market, has laid a fairly solid leading position, as of May, Alexa in the United States every month 2.6 million active users, Cortana is 700,000. In addition, Apple is poised to cross the foot of the smart-sound market, which could foresee more competition. Apple's Siri is an active user of 41 million people a month and will have a big impact once it gets into the market. However, Apple recently postponed its smart-sound homepod launch to 2018. Regardless of what the market will eventually turn out to be, there is no doubt that for Amazon, Microsoft and Google are stepping up their heels, and with Apple's investment, Alexa's pace of growth may be affected.
