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Life Bot's New Alexa App Can Text You Reminders, Help With Daily activities |
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Sub-Types: Website, Search Engine, Consulting, Internet, Web Statistics, Web Traffic, Web Ranking, Application Software, Telecommunication, Telecommunication Software, Telecommunication Hardware |
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| A new voice app from a Y Combinator-backed startup called Life Bot wants to make it easier to use Amazon Alexa as a digital assistant, by aiding with your daily routines and learning your personal preferences. At launch, Life Bot’s Alexa app has a handful of tricks up its sleeve. It can find your misplaced phone, for example, by giving it a ring. Or it can text you reminders at a scheduled time. It can even help you meditate or do yoga at your desk.
But Life Bot’s longer-term ambition is to learn from its users, then be able to kick-off personalized workflows with a single voice command.
A future version of the app could respond to a command like “good morning” by launching a series of updates that would differ from user to user.
For instance, one person might first hear their morning briefing, then launch into a meditation session. Another might have Alexa dictate their schedule for the day, then receive a list of reminders that are in need of scheduling. (To be clear, Life Bot would be running content in its own app, not launching other skills.)
The idea for this jack-of-all-trades voice bot comes from co-founders Jess Williams and Oscar Merry, who previously founded London-based voice design agency Opearlo. The agency did client work for a number of companies, including Unilever, that wanted to make their products and services accessible through voice.
“We kept identifying the problems that brands were facing, and we thought there was a huge opportunity to create the first voice app that people love — and one that people actually use every day,” explains Williams.
The founders sold Opearlo and joined Y Combinator’s summer class. |
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