Amazon to purchase EVI for voice recognition technology?

Rumor has it, amazon could be paying about $26 million for the voice recognition app Avi. This sure wouldn’t be the second time Amazon has been caught running around buying voice recognition technology, it would see this is really important stuff to them. A Siri competitor? Or perhaps something a bit more serious?

From where I stand, they  might be on the way to ditching Android all together. Sure the Kindle’s have been moving at a nice pace, but never because of Android. They’ve proven their eco-system is all their need, everything else after. Up next, a hardware company!