#52 Google Assistant & Alexa – Voice assistants: opportunities, similarities, differences
Voice Assistants have gained immense popularity. Alexa took the showroom by storm, selling 10 million in the last quarter of the previous year alone. Google has recently been supporting the Polish language. This is the best time to teach your product to speak and hit not only the web browser or telephone, but also your customers’ salon. As part of the presentation, you will learn how to get started, we will talk about the differences between UX voice solutions and applications for devices with a screen, what blocks consist of the basic “actions” (because this is how applications for speakers are called), and how to enclose it with additional possibilities. We will compare Google and Amazon ecosystems – how do they differ from each other? Which gives more options to developers?
Head of Java/Kotlin Development at VirtusLab. He has spent over a decade in the industry working on a wide range of projects - from those built from scratch to ones much older than himself. He’s had the opportunity to work on all sides of the fence: as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Architect, and even Technical Product Manager, which allows him to approach problems with a broad perspective. He still loves getting his hands dirty - for over two years now, he has been publishing his own weekly roundup of news from the JVM world: jvm-weekly.com.