# AliGenie

| AliGenie                                                                            |                                                                                                |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Developer(s)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer)                    | [Alibaba Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group)                                   |
| Initial release                                                                     | October 12, 2017; 2 years ago                                                                  |
| Available in                                                                        | [Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language)                                      |
| [Type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches) | [Intelligent personal assistant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_personal_assistant) |
| Website                                                                             | [aligenie.com](http://aligenie.com/) (Chinese)                                                 |

**AliGenie** is a China-based [open-platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_platform) [intelligent personal assistant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_personal_assistant) launched and developed by [Alibaba Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group), currently used in the [Tmall Genie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmall_Genie) smart speaker.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-2) The platform was introduced in 2017, along with the [Tmall Genie X1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmall_Genie), at Alibaba's 2017 Computing Conference in Hangzhou.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-5)

## 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.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-6)[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-7)

AliGenie also integrates with Alibaba Group's services, such as online payment service [Alipay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipay) and shopping platform [Taobao](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao) and [Tmall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmall).[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-8)

## Open platform

AliGenie is an open platform, allowing different manufactures to work on the system and add it to third party products.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-9)[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AliGenie#cite_note-10)

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