Apple moves forward in the creation of a competitor to Amazon Echo: report – CNET in Spanish

The Apple product that will compete with the horn intelligent Amazon Echo is moving forward in its development.

according To a report by news agency Bloomberg, this product, which connects to the smart home, is already in the prototype stage, after two years of research and development.

The team working on this device consists of four groups: Search, Web, Wizard Proactive, voice Recognition, and the application of Siri, says Bloomberg.

This device will feature Siri and, like Echo and Google Home, you can connect to different products of the Internet of Things in the home such as door locks, curtains and other applications or products. According to sources, the project can still be discarded and never see the light.

in Addition to being able to control the smart home, Bloomberg said that thanks to that the device will have Siri, you can run a variety of commands that are currently available for iOS. For example, the report says, the device can play music from Apple Music, compose and post tweets or read notifications.

sources suggest that engineers are already testing this device in their homes, and although this is not an indicator, Bloomberg says that the iPad has started testing in the homes of Apple engineers half a year before its launch; the Apple TV fourth generation –that includes Siri– we began testing a year before its release.

it Is unknown whether the new device will be a hardware new and different from the portfolio of Apple, or if it is a fifth-generation of the box of streaming , as some reports have suggested. In the same way, do not know when it would launch this product.

A Siri-enhanced

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In the same report, Bloomberg says that Apple is working on Invisible Hand, a new feature to make smarter Siri in iOS. The Invisible Hand will allow users to control everything through voice commands, without the need to activate the interface of Siri.

Now, to use Siri in iOS involves placing a whole new window on the screen. With Invisible Hand, Siri will always be present in iOS, but without intervening in the user interface or not appear or obstructing the applications in use. Bloomberg says that this function would come within the next three years.

Apple did not comment to Bloomberg. The article is signed by Mark Gurman, a journalist specializing in issues of Apple and that has a track record impeccable leaks.