Amazon Alexa Fellowship Program Is Heading to 14 More Universities

Amazon is now working with 18 universities to encourage research into voice technology that could help the company’s Alexa voice assistant.  The online retail giant said on Wednesday that it plans to award fellowships to graduate students and faculty members at schools like Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, and the University of California, Berkeley. The fellowship’s goal is to foster the development of voice-recognition technologies at some of the nation’s top universities that would benefit Amazon, which is investing heavily in Alexa amid competition from other services like Google Assistant  and Apple’s  Siri.