Re:Amazon Alexa Comes to Pebble Core
by vvanders on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:37PM
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Dumb question maybe but why not bring this to other pebbles? There's a mic and you have a network connection via smartphone.
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Alexa only has an audio output at this time. We'd love to bring Alexa to all Pebble watches! Tell amazon to add the api :)
The API doesn't provide access to cards?
Anyway, even if it didn't, the watch could still just display a speaker/microphone image and a graphic indicating audio playback.
Honestly, this is my personal hold-up on buying a smart watch. I'm pretty set on getting one with Alexa built-in.
Would you not be able to proxy that audio through Nuance and display text on the Pebbble screen?
Core runs Android, while Pebble watches don't.
That said, it would be a great partnership for Amazon to connect with the Pebble app on people's smartphones to allow for this. As another poster has suggested, Amazon could even buy Pebble at some point. While as a Pebble owner I'd be sad to see them lose their independence, some solid financial backing wouldn't be a bad thing.
Ah ha, that's the context I was missing.