Choosing Voice Assistant Integrations for Your Consumer Smart Home Product | IoT For All
While Voice Assistant support has become a necessity for the success of any smart home device or service, it’s clear there won’t be voice assistant “standards” any time soon. Unlike the progression toward cross-platform and container technologies represented by React Native, Apache Cordova, Docker, etc, Voice Assistant services don’t have a build-once, deploy anywhere standard. The Voice Assistant providers are working hard to evolve their competitive advantages to attract new devices and services, moving further apart with each differentiating feature. If you’re building a device or service you can’t afford to ignore a major channel of your market by only dedicating effort to a single integration. You have to support them all…or at least all the ones that your customers use.