The Dawn of Voice Controlled Home Security

Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant

Even though the market of virtual assistance is barely a few years old, it’s already cornered up by some of the largest tech giants in the world. The current leader of the race is Amazon’s Alexa. Despite their relatively humble start selling speakers with the voice assistant as a mere bonus, Alexa is now the most recognizable voice control service, loved by the casual consumer base. This is proven by the fact that people usually ask Alexa’s help to set the timer, read the news, play some music, create a shopping list or schedule the lightings. However, they cannot lie back, as Google plans to dethrone them with their own virtual assistance. Even though they aren’t that popular at the moment, Google can count on their massive Android userbase to test the service, not to mention the huge potential of the technology for their search engine.

Microsoft decided not to stand between these two giants when it comes fisticuffs, thus they aim at a different market with their own assistant. According to Microsoft, Cortana is meant to cater to businessmen and professionals. The company is known to invest heavily in artificial intelligence research, so we can expect some well implemented features. They also utilize their partnership with Nissan and Volkswagen, meaning that in the future these cars will be sold with Cortana on board. Last but not least, we have Siri, the darling of Apple. Despite being an early bird, Apple’s lack of aggressive moves set back the natural growth of its system. Still, there is hope for Siri, since Apple also has a huge fanbase, with billions of iOS devices in their hands.