Alexa, Siri, and Cortana Voice Controls Going Mainstream

Star Trek Scotty, A Keyboard, How Quaint
Alexa has over 3000 skills. The iPhone 7 goes wireless, a step Apple is taking to get users to leverage Siri more frequently and easily. Microsoft is broadening Cortana's AI capabilities

We've reached an inflection point; the end of the keyboard, mouse, and touchpad and the start of voice commands as a legitimate controller. When you develop your next application, you are likely implementing mobile first, web second and thinking about a watch experience. Now add voice controls to the mix and someday soon voice inputs will outnumber keyboard inputs.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a developer configuring Alexa to push data into AWS Lambda and store information. Alexa has some limitations in that voice commands needs to be configured up front, but the demo showed that it's relatively straightforward interfacing basic voice commands to applications.    

Reminds me of this classic Star Trek scene. "A keyboard. How quaint" says Scotty

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About Isaac Sacolick

Isaac Sacolick is President of StarCIO, a technology leadership company that guides organizations on building digital transformation core competencies. He is the author of Digital Trailblazer and the Amazon bestseller Driving Digital and speaks about agile planning, devops, data science, product management, and other digital transformation best practices. Sacolick is a recognized top social CIO, a digital transformation influencer, and has over 900 articles published at InfoWorld, CIO.com, his blog Social, Agile, and Transformation, and other sites. You can find him sharing new insights @NYIke on Twitter, his Driving Digital Standup YouTube channel, or during the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers.