Google Now turns Siri on after being prodded by Alexa in virtual threesome
by Samuel Gibbs from on (#1B0YQ)
This is how you can get Amazon's Alexa talking to Google's Now to activate Apple's Siri, in a voice-assistant Rube Goldberg machine
Why just use one voice assistant when you can get Amazon's Alexa to command Google's Now to activate Apple's Siri?
This voice-assistant three-way was enabled by using Amazon's recently released Alexa voice-command system, which the company hopes will help developers insert its voice assistant (made popular in the US by Amazon's Echo intelligent speaker) into their new products. Whether Amazon envisioned them being used to talk to competitor products, we'll never know.
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