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Invoxia on Thursday announced that Amazon's Alexa Voice Service has been integrated with its Triby digital assistants.
The voice-activated unit is the first non-Amazon product to be Alexa-enabled.Triby, which has a magnetic frame, features a built-in speaker and microphone that can be used to listen to Internet radio or as a hands-free speakerphone, but its main function is to act as a digital assistant that can provide hands-free control for getting information from the Web, including Wikipedia, weather, news and sports.
Via voice commands, users can control timers and alarms, access a calendar, and create shopping and to-do lists. The device can act as a connected message board, complete with its own small e-ink message screen.
"Triby has been designed to transform how technology can improve everyday family life today and in the future," said Sébastien de la Bastie, managing director of Invoxia.
"Just as Apple changed the mobile industry by using capacitive touch as a new interface, voice-activated devices will be the game-changing interface that makes the smart home a reality," he told TechNewsWorld. "By creating a device that is strategically placed within the kitchen, the functional and social control center of the home, we are bringing cloud-based AI into the real world in a way that will become as appealing to families as it is to tech adopters."