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The original Alexa wasn't built for natural conversations involving back-and-forth chatter. Instead, it replies to simple questions or commands by pulling from an evolving set of pre-determined ...
Amazon has unveiled a slew of gadgets and an update to its popular voice assistant Alexa, infusing it with more generative AI features to better compete with other tech companies who've rolled out ...
Amazon gadget boss hints at ‘awesome’ future Alexa products and unveils a slew of new Kindle devices in his public debut. Jason Del Rey. Updated October 16, 2024 at 10:43 AM.
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [3] [4] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
On July 9, 2024, Amazon brought back the Echo Spot, but with a different design. The device now resembles the look of the Echo Pop, with a 2.83" inch touch screen with a half-circle tinted cover glass and a speaker. Unlike the 2017 version, videocalling and smart home cameras are not available on the device. The device sold for $79.99.
Amazon Echo Show is a smart speaker that is part of the Amazon Echo line of products. Similarly to other devices in the family, it is designed around Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa, but additionally features a touchscreen display that can be used to display visual information to accompany its responses, as well as play video and conduct video calls with other Echo Show users.
Amazon's voice-assistant Alexa was hailed as the "computer of the future" — but nearly 10 years later, the team behind it is being gutted.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” Hinton told the New York Times. “But most people thought it was way off. “But most people ...