{"id":747099,"date":"2013-04-17T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=446175"},"modified":"2013-04-17T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T01:30:37","slug":"amazon-reportedly-buys-evi-a-siri-like-voice-assistant-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747099","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reportedly buys Evi, a Siri-like voice assistant app"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/amazon-evi-purchase-rumor-446175\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/amazon-sign.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Amazon reportedly buys Evi, a Siri-like voice assistant app\" title=\"Amazon\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Amazon apparently isn't willing to let Apple and Google hog the market for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/21\/google-now-ios-389306\/\">voice-enabled personal assistants<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/04\/17\/sources-say-amazon-acquired-siri-like-evi-app-for-26m-is-a-smartphone-coming\/\">Unnamed sources have told <em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> has purchased Evi, a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/siri\">Siri<\/a>-like voice assistant application that had been developed by True Knowledge, \"a\u00a0British startup with a natural language search engine developed in university labs.\" Although <em>TechCrunch<\/em> has been unable to get official confirmation from Amazon, the publication's sources say that Amazon paid around $26 million to acquire the app. Given Amazon's investment in both Evi and voice recognition software company Ivona, <em>TechCrunch<\/em> speculates that the company may be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/amazon-kindle-smartphone-specs-rumors-399936\/\">inching close to developing its own smartphone<\/a> to compliment its Kindle Fire line of tablets.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/bGa7jwvDuz0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon apparently isn&#8217;t willing to let Apple and Google hog the market for voice-enabled personal assistants. Unnamed sources have told TechCrunch that Amazon has purchased Evi, a Siri-like voice assistant application that had been developed by True Knowledge, &#8220;a\u00a0British startup with a natural language search engine developed in university labs.&#8221; Although TechCrunch has been unable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38lZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}