{"id":61633,"date":"2017-11-29T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=61633"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:20:44","slug":"now-with-over-24000-skills-where-might-amazons-alexa-end-up-in-our-future-learning-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/11\/29\/now-with-over-24000-skills-where-might-amazons-alexa-end-up-in-our-future-learning-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"Now with over 24,000 skills, where might Amazon’s Alexa end up in our future learning ecosystems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Impact of Alexa and Google Home on Consumer Behavior<\/strong> <\/a>— from chatbotsmagazine.com by Arte Merritt<\/p>\n

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2017 has turned out to be the year of voice. Amazon Alexa passed over 10 million unit sales earlier in the year and there are over 24,000 Skills in the store.<\/span><\/strong> With the addition of new devices like the Echo Show, Echo Plus, improved Echo Dot, and a new form factor for the Echo, there\u2019s an option for everyone\u2019s budget. Google is right there as well with the addition of the Google Mini to go along with the original Google Home. Apple\u2019s efforts with Siri and HomePod, Samsung\u2019s Bixby, and Microsoft\u2019s Cortana round out the major tech firms efforts in this space.<\/p>\n

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The Impact of Alexa and Google Home on Consumer Behavior — from chatbotsmagazine.com by Arte Merritt Excerpt (emphasis DSC): 2017 has turned out to be the year of voice. Amazon Alexa passed over 10 million unit sales earlier in the year and there are over 24,000 Skills in the store. With the addition of new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,354,556,356,817,63,419,180,432,102,17,7,821,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-av-audiovisual","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-google","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-learner-profiles","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61643,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61633\/revisions\/61643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}