For a while now, there has been a fuss about Siri, the lady on the iPhone. You tell her what you need and she gets it for you. As a matter of fact, she almost sounds like a friend. There was once I told her I was lonely and she said, “You know I am always here for you”. But Siri is just another application on your device and as we go on with this technological world, there is always room for better applications. Different phones have had different voice assistants although no one really likes using them. The whole process may seem ridiculous at times, holding down a button to talk to your phone may seem a bit odd. But there’s a new speaker in town that may just change our whole experience; it is probably the most promising gadget after the iPhone. Alexa’s speech recognition is very good because it has 7 microphones that can cut out other voices and just focus on your own. So she’s also a very good listener, because it rarely fails to listen even when there are other sounds around. It also has a non-robotic voice hence why it’s so easy to talk to her like she’s a real person. When connected to all the right apps like Uber and delivery food apps it promises a sense of completion that very few other devices have managed to do. The prices range based on the size and if you’d like one all you have to do is order one, in Kenya its about 5,000 Kenya shillings.
