Amazon's ESP cloud has just made every third-party Alexa gadget a better listener

One of the largest parts of Amazon's strategy aimed at developing the voice-activated Alexa ecosystem is to help third-party manufacturers to create their own own gadgets. This led to a plethora of new devices that feature the popular voice assistant but they have not always been able to incorporate all the best features in the world. Alexa.

Chief among these: ESP, or "Echo-Spatial Perception", which ensures that only the Echo speaker closest to you answers your question or command. This is essential if you live in a home with more than one Alexa gadget, but as it requires a device-side integration, many of these third-party gadget makers have been forced to launch their gadgets without it.

The result? Well, watch the video clip below.

The problem with the third gadgets of Alexa: most of them do not have ESP function of Amazon, so that only the nearest device responds. pic.twitter.com/s685YwOeyl

– Ry Crist (@rycrist) November 7, 2017

Fortunately, Amazon is working on a patch called Cloud ESP that allows these third-party gadgets to add ESP with a simple software update. It has been deployed quietly for a few months, says the Amazon team, and has now been automatically applied to the entire Amazon Amazon gadget catalog is not done.

"Alexa continues to integrate more and more in people's lives is enabled on multiple devices from a range of manufacturers," said Priya Abani, director of Amazon Alexa. "By automatically allowing all devices to take advantage of ESP, customers enjoy the best experience with Alexa on the growing number of devices and experiences compatible with Alexa."

Quant to gadgets that have already added the ESP via the old method The spokesperson adds the following:

"ESP Cloud has been automatically deployed on all Alexa-enabled devices, which means that all products that do not have ESP implementation on the device side now have the new cloud version on their product.Developers who use a device-side implementation can continue to use the current model or choose to switch to the ESP cloud to release additional resources and bandwidth. "

The news arrives during a busy week for Alexa who also saw the light new equalizer controls. on the Echo speakers as well as a new "Tap to Alexa" feature for smart touch-screen speakers Echo Show and Echo Spot c 39 is designed to make the assistant more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.