Amazon Alexa: News

Alexa is Amazon's cloud-based voice service available on several devices made by Amazon and third-party device manufacturers. The e-commerce giant claims that "with Alexa, you can build natural voice experiences that offer a customer more intuitive ways to interact with the technology they use every day." Alexa broadly comes under the classification of an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant. Similar solutions include Google Assistant and Apple's Siri. Alexa was first introduced in 2013 and featured for the first time on the Amazon Echo smart speaker. Today, Alexa is available on the Amazon Echo platform, Fire OS, iOS, Android, Linux, and Windows. Alexa's capabilities include voice interactions, music playback, podcast streaming, playing audiobooks, providing weather traffic sports, and other real-time information including news, and making to-do lists. The voice assistant can be activated for listening to commands using the "Alexa" hotword. This hotword can be changed for every Alexa device you have. Additionally, Amazon offers a variety of voices including male, female, and celebrity voices on a regular basis. You can choose any of these voices for the Alexa service. Alexa's capabilities can be expanded by installing "skills" developed by third-party vendors for compatibility with their offerings.

21 Apr 2020

Jeep Compass

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28 Mar 2020

Amazon

Amazon's Alexa can help with preliminary coronavirus diagnosis: Here's how

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25 Feb 2020

Amazon

Here's what different ring colors on your Amazon Echo mean

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06 Feb 2020

Amazon

Indians told Alexa 'I love you' once every minute

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04 Jan 2020

Samsung

#CES2020: Samsung to showcase robots capable of reading facial expressions

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29 Dec 2019

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26 Dec 2019

Amazon

#TechBytes: Some fun tricks you can try on Echo speaker

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24 Dec 2019

Amazon

Amazon Alexa tells user to kill herself for 'greater good'

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23 Dec 2019

Google

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19 Dec 2019

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13 Dec 2019

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Now, hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice on your Echo device

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11 Dec 2019

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04 Dec 2019

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Amazon launches its first-ever portable Echo smart speaker in India

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28 Nov 2019

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Now, Amazon's Alexa will talk with emotions. Scary times ahead!

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26 Nov 2019

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21 Nov 2019

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10 Nov 2019

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09 Nov 2019

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22 Oct 2019

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18 Sep 2019

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Amazon's Alexa voice assistant can now take and answer commands in Hindi.

11 Aug 2019

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04 Aug 2019

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Now, you can stop Amazon employees from hearing Alexa conversations

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17 Jul 2019

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Soon, Amazon's Alexa will start talking in Hindi

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06 Jul 2019

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29 Jun 2019

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Man cancels Amazon Prime subscription, Alexa calls him 'shithead'

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29 Jun 2019

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22 Jun 2019

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Toshiba joins hands with Amazon, launches budget-friendly Fire TV

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20 Jun 2019

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Soon, Alexa could detect heart attacks: Here's how

Alexa can handle plenty of queries, but scientists think that the device could soon have the power to detect heart attacks.

16 Jun 2019

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Baby thinks her name is 'Alexa', thanks to Amazon Echo

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09 Jun 2019

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Alexa records conversations: Here's how you can delete them

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30 May 2019

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Now, you can ask Alexa to forget conversations: Here's how

Alexa, the digital voice assistant from Amazon, is getting a handy new privacy feature, one you can use to delete your voice recordings instantly.

24 May 2019

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#ScareAlert: Amazon to record even before you say "Alexa"

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10 May 2019

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Amazon accused of spying on children via Echo Dot Kids

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25 Apr 2019

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16 Apr 2019

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Here's how tech giants handle data captured by voice assistants

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24 Mar 2019

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#TechBytes: 5 bizarre Alexa skills you should check out

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16 Mar 2019

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12 Mar 2019

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08 Jan 2019

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CES 2019: Alexa interrupts Qualcomm's executive, says that's not true

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27 Dec 2018

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Amazon's Alexa is pretty handy for day-to-day tasks, but on Christmas, the smart assistant served a nasty surprise - it went down.

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