Often hidden away in plain sight, there is a lot of movement currently under way in the realm of voice assistants and AI. Companies are starting to predict a pretty bright future for the technology and act accordingly to strengthen their ranks, while the space is still young and fragmented. Case and point, Microsoft and Amazon’s recently unveiled collaboration, which has already seen Alexa and Cortana start to interconnect.
Make no mistake, that’s definitely not as far as the story goes. Fast on the heels of Amazon’s latest Echo hardware refresh, Microsoft announced that it will be…