Articles about Alexa – Page 11 of 16

Recipes via robot: As voice technology shakes up cooking, Allrecipes adapts with help from Amazon

If your grandmother was anything like mine — at home in the kitchen with a recipe box full of hand-written… Read More

Coding Dojo partners with Amazon to teach 1,500 developers how to build skills for Alexa

Developer bootcamp Coding Dojo is planning 30 Amazon Alexa Skills Workshops for at least 1,500 developers by the end of… Read More

Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only

Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More

Amazon says Echo Show will connect to Nest, Ring and other security cameras via Alexa

Amazon this morning is announcing the first home-monitoring and security cameras that will be compatible with the new $230 Echo… Read More

Amazon unveils $20 Dash Wand with Alexa for voice-enabled grocery ordering and home controls

Amazon just introduced a new Alexa device: a $20 version of its Amazon Dash Wand with the voice-enabled smart assistant… Read More

Amazon rolls out contact blocking for Alexa voice-calling feature

Amazon is rolling out an update to its Alexa app that lets users of its voice-calling feature block specific people… Read More

Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home

Apple today unveiled its own voice-activated smart home speaker, the HomePod. Set to begin shipping in December, the speaker is… Read More

Nina, meet Alexa: Nuance brings its enterprise assistant to Amazon’s voice-integrated devices

Thanks, Alexa, you’ve been a big help, but we’ve got some questions for Nina now. The enterprise virtual assistant from Nuance… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI group built a voice search for Alexa skills, but Amazon rejected it

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is very skillful, now at more than 12,000 third-party capabilities, but it can sometimes be difficult… Read More

Dish DVRs get Amazon Alexa integration for TV voice control via Echo devices

The days of frantically searching for a lost TV remote may soon be coming to an end, at least for… Read More

Alexa at the ballpark: Testing Amazon Echo inside a Seattle Mariners suite at Safeco Field

Amazon’s voice technology has made its way into Major League Baseball. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners became the first… Read More

Amazon starts taking pre-orders for first Alexa-enabled 4K TVs

Amazon is now taking orders for the first Ultra High Definition (UHD) televisions that run on the Fire TV operating… Read More

Amazon adding opt-in Alexa notifications: Echo will chime and pulse green when info is waiting

Alexa is about to get more assertive. Amazon is adding notifications to its voice-enabled assistant, allowing users to choose to… Read More

Amazon says caller blocking for Alexa/Echo is coming, amid customer complaints

Some early adopters of Amazon’s new Alexa voice-calling feature for the company’s Echo devices have been surprised to find that they can’t keep specific… Read More

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The Week in Geek: A historic Echo-to-Echo call, a new direction for Windows, and tech’s ‘megalopolis’

Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence assistant, is getting smarter by the day. Her most recent trick is pretty impressive: users can now… Read More

Amazon Music product leader explains why Alexa is only available in 3 countries so far

When it comes to global expansion, Amazon’s Alexa is taking it slow. As of now, Amazon devices with the Alexa… Read More

Amazon unveils $230 touch-screen ‘Echo Show’ and Alexa voice calling

Amazon this morning made two major upgrades to its Echo lineup: a new $230 device called the Echo Show, with… Read More

Microsoft Cortana-powered Harman Kardon speaker will feature Skype calling

Will Skype be the killer app for Microsoft’s aspiring Amazon Echo killer? Harman International, the Samsung subsidiary, this morning released new details about… Read More

Amazon passes 10M Alexa-powered devices sold, survey says, with more models on the way

A new survey estimates that Amazon has sold more than 10 million Alexa-powered Echo devices since late 2014, and that… Read More

BMW ReachNow car-sharing service launches Amazon Alexa skill

ReachNow users who own an Alexa-enabled device can now find out information about nearby vehicles using just their voice. BMW’s… Read More

‘Alexa, get that lampshade off your head’: $200 Alexa-powered GE table lamp coming this fall

Among Alexa’s more than 12,000 abilities are a cavalcade of ways for Amazon’s digital assistant to control the house, like turning… Read More

Amazon patent shows how Alexa-powered devices could turn into extension phones

We’ve known for weeks that Amazon has been working on ways to give Alexa-powered, voice-controlled devices the ability to make… Read More

Alexa reaches 12,000 skills as Amazon’s digital assistant powers new Echo Look device

Alexa’s very special set of skills now numbers more than 12,000. Amazon announced the increased skill count in its quarterly… Read More

Amazon’s newest pillars? AI and logistics key to tech giant’s future, study says

Amazon has evolved constantly throughout its more than 20-year life span, first as a book seller, than an e-commerce giant, and… Read More

Amazon opens up Alexa’s microphone and voice processing technology to hardware makers

Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa might show up in a lot of new devices soon. That’s because the online retail giant… Read More

Alexa Diabetes Challenge hopes Amazon’s virtual assistant can help patients manage the chronic condition

Alexa, Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, seems to have unlimited talents. But can her skills help people with chronic health… Read More

Hacking The Hoff: Easy Amazon Alexa workaround gives this wannabe Knight Rider a talking car

I’ve always wanted a talking car. I don’t know whether it was the 1980s “Knight Rider” TV series, or generations… Read More

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Father, son and AI bonding: A conversation with Amazon’s Alexa and the family she has joined

A week after my 10-year-old son received Amazon’s Echo Dot for his birthday, I started taking a look at what he… Read More

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The Week in Geek: How Starbucks and Amazon are becoming more alike

Starbucks and Amazon, two of Seattle’s iconic corporate giants, started off very different from each other. At heart, Starbucks is… Read More

Adobe unveils new Microsoft HoloLens and Amazon Alexa integrations

Adobe is in the middle of its big Summit conference, where it is introducing a variety of new technologies, including… Read More