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More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its di...

Amazon Wants You to Start Paying for Alexa

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo artificial intelligence Microsoft siri and tagged apple google on January 18, 2024 by Thomas Germain

Yes, Amazon is having a second Prime Day event, this time in the middle of October. The company did the same thing last year, positioning itself right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November.Read more...

Best Early Deals From October’s Amazon Prime Day

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo Internet of Things smart tv on October 7, 2023 by Dan Ackerman

You might not have realized all the tricks that your smart speakers can do yet: As well as answering questions, setting timers and alarms, queueing up music, and everything else, these gadgets can also double up as intercom systems for your entire home...

How to Use Your Smart Speakers as Intercoms

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo siri and tagged google iphone on October 3, 2023 by David Nield

Last week, at Amazon’s annual Fall hardware event, executive David Limp revealed the company would soon be upgrading the capabilities of its well-known voice assistant, Alexa, using the supposedly magical power of generative AI. Earlier this year, Ama...

Amazon Is Using Your Conversations With Alexa to Train AI

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo artificial intelligence privacy virtual assistant on September 26, 2023 by Lucas Ropek

Amazon puts tens of thousands of items on sale during Amazon Prime Day every year, but finding a valuable needle in that haystack can be hard. Fortunately, my colleagues and I have spent years combing through deals like these, especially on tech items,...

Live: Best Amazon Prime Day Deals for 2023

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo Best-Buy Consumer Electronics Show iPad LG tablet computer and tagged samsung on July 11, 2023 by Dan Ackerman

Amazon Echo users who might be a little too tired of hearing the same, tired old Alexa voice and are looking for a bit more pizzazz from their smart home system are getting a new dash of sparkle from the Magic Kingdom itself. On Thursday, Disney and Am...

‘Hey Disney:’ Dory and Mickey Can Now Respond to Your ...

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo Disney kids and tagged iphone on June 15, 2023 by Kyle Barr

‘Hey Disney:’ Dory and Mickey Can Now Respond to Your ...

This entry was posted in Amazon amazon echo Disney kids and tagged iphone on June 15, 2023 by Kyle Barr

Amazon today announced a new Alexa feature, Live Translation, that will translate conversations between people who speak two different languages. The feature uses Amazon’s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work, and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazilian), German or Italian. To use Live Translation, an Echo device […]