Why developers like Alexa

What is Alexa?

It is a cloud-based voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices including the Echo family of devices, FireTV, Fire Tablet, and third-party devices. You can build voice experiences, or skills, that make everyday tasks faster, easier, and more delightful for customers.

Alexa is a tool in the Voice AI category of a tech stack.

Who uses Alexa?

Companies

7 companies reportedly use Alexa in their tech stacks, including PlayAsYouGo, development, and Platform.

PlayAsYouGo

development

Platform

Crit Cola

Quillie

backend-cloud

boop

Developers

199 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Alexa.

richiverse stack

research

My Stack

lab1

Fit Pop

My Stack

Alexa Integrations

Power BI, Raspberry Pi, Todoist, Voiceflow, and Remember The Milk are some of the popular tools that integrate with Alexa. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Alexa.

Power BI

Raspberry Pi

Todoist

Voiceflow

Remember The Milk

Flow.ai

Gupshup Enterprise

TickTick

Jovo for Web

Decisions about Alexa

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Alexa in their tech stack.

Arthur Boghossian

DevOps Engineer at PlayAsYouGo · Feb 6, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 112.9K views

Shared insights

For our Compute services, we decided to use AWS Lambda as it is perfect for quick executions (perfect for a bot), is serverless, and is required by Amazon Lex, which we will use as the framework for our bot. We chose Amazon Lex as it integrates well with other #AWS services and uses the same technology as Alexa. This will give customers the ability to purchase licenses through their Alexa device. We chose Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information as it is a noSQL database, has high performance, and highly available. If we decide to train our own models for license recommendation we will either use Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS ASG as they are ideal for model training and inference.

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Alexa Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Alexa?

Echo

It is a high performance, extensible, minimalist web framework for Go (Golang).

Mycroft

It is an open-source voice assistant. It is private by default and completely customizable. It can be freely remixed, extended, and deployed anywhere. It may be used in anything from a science project to a global enterprise environment.

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