Is your Alexa different? Recent upgrade brings new voices, features

Amazon rolled out an automatic upgrade to its Alexa virtual assistant. Alexa+ has new voices and new features.
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Amazon Alexa now has a real web app (again)

For years, the Alexa voice assistant has been on phones, tablets, smart home devices, and everything in-between. Now, it's coming (back) to your web browser, designed as an alternative to ...
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The Fundamentals of Designing Voice Apps for Alexa

Although many Voice-enabled devices are beginning to combine Voice technology with screens, designing for Voice differs from designing a traditional graphic user interface. This is because for ...
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Alexa voice recordings of some Echo device users will be sent to Amazon

Amazon has announced that it will scrap a setting that currently allows some Amazon Echo users to store and process their Alexa requests locally. In other words, all Alexa voice recordings of ...
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Alexa is the upgrade Amazon’s assistant desperately needed, but its app is still a mess

An AI overhaul makes Alexa+ a much better digital assistant and smart home control center I tried Alexa+ on my first-generation Amazon Echo Show 15, which received a major software refresh in addition ...

Want Alexa+ today? Everyone in the US can finally try it now - here's how

The wait to use Alexa+ is over, as Amazon has announced its widespread launch for all US users. Amazon first announced Alexa+ a year ago as a generative AI-powered version of its popular virtual ...