Amazon is going huge on building community around their voice assistant 📈

Amazon Alexa team has recently launched a program in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU).

The program itself is designed to enhance students’ ASU experience by giving them touch-free access to information and services tailored to campus living — and prepare some of them to become leaders in voice-technology development.

Incoming freshmen engineering students will be able to build their own Alexa skills or capabilities and join the growing community of voice developers.

“Our focus is putting this technology into the hands of our students in a way that will build an ecosystem that supports voice technologies throughout the ASU campus.”

I’m pretty sure that ASU is a perfect fit for Amazon because it has been ranked No. 1 in innovation by U.S. News & World Report for two years in a row, staying the course by embedding innovation into its schools, departments, athletics and student experiences.

I’m really pumped to see how Amazon is building an ecosystem around voice by doing such a program, that is a really smart move from these guys 👍

https://asunow.asu.edu/20170817-asu-news-asu-amazon-dots-tooker-house