A lot of consumer publications have been talking about Voice Assistants for a while now, but the development of them to date have been entirely proprietary, and they are given away for a price below their cost, and pushed to capture the market, before anyone clearly knows what to do with it. They rely on the existing natural language processing systems of a handful of companies, but also the core listening and music projection capabilities of speakers and microphones which could be made by anyone. People instinctively know it is a market, that it will become a platform and that natural language processing, will become like the PC or the Smartphone, there will be one or two winners, who control…