AliGenie is a China-based
open-platform intelligent personal assistant
An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) or intelligent personal assistant (IPA) is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual based on commands or questions. The term "chatbot" is sometimes used to refer to virtual ...
launched and developed by
Alibaba Group, currently used in the
Tmall Genie
The Tmall Genie is a smart speaker developed by Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group, using the intelligent personal assistant service AliGenie. Introduced in July 2017, the device consists of a cylindrical body with omni-directional speakers ...
smart speaker. The platform was introduced in 2017, along with the
Tmall Genie X1, at Alibaba's 2017 Computing Conference in Hangzhou.
Features
Similar to other virtual assistants, AliGenie is capable of smart home control, music playback, voice shopping, taking notes and more. AliGenie also features voice recognition, voiceprint recognition, semantic understanding and speech synthesis.
AliGenie also integrates with Alibaba Group's services, such as online payment service
Alipay and shopping platform
Taobao and
Tmall
Tmall (), formerly Taobao Mall, is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail, spun off from Taobao, operated in China by Alibaba Group. It is a platform for local Chinese and international businesses to sell brand-n ...
. AliGenie's voiceprint recognition technology offered security by only allowing authorized users to place online orders.
Open platform
AliGenie is an open platform, allowing different manufactures to work on the system and add it to third party products.
References
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Alibaba Group
Virtual assistants