Facebook Inc
is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com's
Alexa, Apple's Siri and Alphabet's Google Assistant.
"We are working to develop voice and AI assistant
technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and
future products," a Facebook spokesperson told Reuters in an e-mailed
response on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, CNBC reported about the development, saying that the team
behind the technology has been contacting vendors in the smart speaker supply
chain.
However, it remains unclear how exactly Facebook
envisions people using the assistant, but it could potentially be used on the company's
Portal video chat smart speakers, the Oculus headsets or other future projects,
CNBC reported.
According to research firm eMarketer, Amazon's Echo is expected to
capture 63.3 percent of smart speaker users in 2019, while Google Home will
account for 31 percent.
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