Almost all Amazon Echo speakers will soon work with Siri, Google Assistant

Thanks to a major upgrade to open-source platform Matter

Amazon’s Echo smart speakers are about to get a lot smarter. An upgrade to Matter – an open-source standard platform – should make Amazon’s smart speakers work with more voice assistants, not just Alexa.

Matter is the new name for Project Connected Home over IP (or CHIP for short). It’s a coalition of big-name companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance, Philips and dozens more

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