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Amazon Opens Alexa Voice Service to Third Party Hardware Makers

spyshowspyshow Member
in Ideas & Suggestions

as in this post : phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2062557

can you ( now or in future update include it inside homey ... because alexa is mush smarter ( i guess)

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  • Fire69Fire69 Member

    Alexa is smarter then who? Homey?
    I doubt it. Homey uses Google, right?

  • ReflowReflow Member

    As far as I know it doesn't use google's speak assistant service..? Correct me if I'm wrong

  • OGSOGS Member

    In an other discusion I saw they use wit.ia.

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    We are not using any 'smart' service. All the thinking happens on Homey itself.

    We are using multiple speech-to-text services though. We make them battle online, to deliver the fastest response to you as possible :)

  • Fire69Fire69 Member
    edited June 2015

    You don't use a 'smart' service?
    If Homey handles all the speech by himself, can you ask it general questions or only questions that are supported by the installed apps? Things like 'how tall is the Eifel tower' or something more useful :-P

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    Yes you can. Just install the Wolfram Alpha app :-) We want to keep it modular. Of course, we'll ship with a few apps pre-installed, so the average user won't know the difference.

  • spyshowspyshow Member

    so maybe in the future you will use Alexa ???? it's better than reinventing the wheel

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    Well, at this time Alexa is more limited than Homey..

  • umdobsonumdobson Member
    Emile said:

    Well, at this time Alexa is more limited than Homey..

    I agree that Homey can do moreself and integrates with a lot of european home devices. Thats why I bought it.
    The main reason I wanted Homey was to use voice commands. 
    The current version of homey is unusable for voice commands.
    It is very very slow.
    99% of the cases it does not recognise the commands.

    My workaround is to use Alexa -> IFTTT -> Homey

    Alexa's voice recognition is second to none for $50.-

    Please provide an Alexa integration. - you would vastly improve the functionality of Homey.
    Dometica users happily pay 50 euros for a dometica addone. So Homey would manage to sell a lot more.


  • jeroenbos22jeroenbos22 Member
    Amazon dot intergration Would be awesome, especially When it starts supporting dutch language.
  • MG11MG11 Member
    Yes, please create an amazon dot integration with Homey! 
    The IFTTT workaround does work very well, but it takes to long and I don't like the required word "trigger" in the command. 
  • WathLamersWathLamers Member
    i would also love it    :)
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