GeekWire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Alexa and Google Assistant will be available simultaneously on Harman’s new JBL Authentics 200, 300, and 500 smart speakers. After initial setup, users will be able to invoke either assistant by saying “Alexa” or “Hey Google.” The integration extends to basic operation of the smart speakers.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2023

Amazon’s new Echo Pop smart speaker. Amazon Photo) Amazon unveiled a new Echo smart speaker, a $39.99 Amazon’s new Echo Buds. Amazon Photo) Alexa device sales: Amazon disclosed for the first time that more than 500 million Alexa-enabled devices have been sold since the Echo debuted as the first in late 2014.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

(Amazon Photo). Customers looking to tip their Amazon delivery driver can get a little help in doing so from Alexa. customers who say, “Alexa, thank my driver” will trigger a tip toward the last worker who delivered a package to that customer. Starting this week in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Amazon Alexa is the leading digital assistant on the market. Find out more about this machine-learning innovation with our Alexa cheat sheet.

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MAY 30, 2023

Celebrity voices for Amazon’s Alexa included, from left, Samuel L. Amazon Images) Amazon is muting the celebrity voices for Alexa that have been used to report the weather, tell jokes and more. Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy. The voices for actors Samuel L. “Samuel L.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Amazon launched a new Live Translation feature for Alexa that recognizes and translates between languages in real time. Read More.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Amazon confirmed Monday that it is planning to lay off several hundred workers at its Alexa division as part of a shift in focus to generative AI. The application is fueled by a large language model (LLM) that Amazon has been developing internally, originally to support the Alexa smart assistant.

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2023

Amazon will pay a total of more than $30 million in separate privacy settlements with the Federal Trade Commission involving its Ring cameras and Alexa voice assistant, despite taking issue with the underlying claims. However, Amazon said it disagreed with the FTC’s claims, and denied violating the law.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

After putting Alexa everywhere it could, Amazon is focusing its efforts on going deep, with new Alexa capabilities, a new edge chip, and surveillance gear. Read More.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An Amazon delivery driver in Seattle. GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Next time an Amazon package hits your front step, don’t just shout thanks through the door or at the van driving off down your street — use Alexa. For a limited time, you’ll be spurring Amazon to also tip that driver $5.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

(Amazon screenshot). Amazon is bringing new voice control capabilities to Microsoft’s gaming consoles with the surprise release of a new “Alexa for Xbox” app. A news release from Amazon on Wednesday announced the app for users in the U.S. Amazon screenshot).

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Venture Beast

MARCH 1, 2021

Amazon today launched Alexa Conversations, an Alexa feature that enables natural multiturn dialogue, in general availability. Read More.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Amazon's new Auto Mode for the Alexa app on smartphones is a car-centric interface that provides one-tap access to common functions. Read More.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 16, 2021

Amazon Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad believes context is the key to more capable voice-driven AI systems -- and AI systems in general. Read More.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 19, 2021

An Alexa-enabled Echo smart speaker. Amazon Photo). “Alexa, STOP!” ” How many times have you shouted that after unintentionally waking a voice-enabled Amazon device? Now imagine being the parent of a human named Alexa who is trying to coexist with your smart speakers.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Unlike Google and Apple, Amazon doesn’t have a smartphone platform of its own for native integration of its voice assistant, after the short-lived Amazon Fire Phone. However, the company has worked with some Android device makers in recent years to replicate the effect on what are known as “Alexa Built-In” phones.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2021

Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist for the Amazon Alexa team. When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker debuted in 2014, it was something of a novelty: A voice-activated natural language processing interface that could perform a number of simple tasks.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo) — Longtime Seattle-based tech leader Joseph Sirosh has left Amazon. Sirosh was VP of Amazon Search and Alexa Shopping. He joined Amazon in 2022 after a stint at Compass, where he was chief technology officer. The Puget Sound Business Journal first reported Sirosh’s departure. Tami Erwin. (F5

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you regularly use an Alexa device, you’ve probably been upsold by Amazon’s assistant at some point. Ask Alexa to carry out some basic task like setting a timer, and it will finish its response with a cheery “By the way, did you know I could [insert feature you’ve never heard of here].” percent annually in future.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Amazon Photo). Privacy was front-and-center for Amazon at the company’s big devices and services event this week. The most noteworthy privacy-related announcement was a new feature for Alexa that lets users automatically and immediately delete their voice recordings. ” Amazon’s new Echo Dot devices.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

(Amazon Image / Glynis Condon). Alexa is getting smarter. Amazon’s voice assistant in the U.S. In the example above, when a user asks for the weather at Seaside Beach, Alexa responds with the weather, then asks if the user wants to set a live camera feed of Seaside Beach on the screen.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Amazon is shutting down Alexa Internet, a service that has provided web traffic analysis for more than two decades. Alexa was founded in 1996 and bought by Amazon in 1999 (15 years before the shopping giant revealed its digital assistant of the same name). Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That’s how I feel about Amazon’s announcement that it’s adding a new service to Alexa for landlords. It’s called Alexa for Residential that, according to Amazon, “makes it easy for property… Read more. You know that clip of Steve Carell from The Office where he’s shouting “No, God! No, God, please no! Nooooooooo!”

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JULY 20, 2022

Ever since Amazon introduced Alexa via its Echo smart speakers, I've longed for the day when I could just talk to devices and have them do what I wanted them to. Unfortunately, we're not there just yet, but we're getting somewhat closer.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Rohit Prasad, who leads the Alexa team at Amazon, said the goal of the project is to "make the memories last" after "so many of us have lost someone we love" as a result of the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

All you have to do to activate Live Translation is "ask Alexa to initiate a translation session." Amazon didn't say exactly what keywords will trigger this feature, but we assume something like "Alexa, start translating" will probably do the trick.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It might seem like Amazon’s Alexa is reading your mind when she automatically orders more toilet paper or turns on the lights at a specific time. ” The ad proceeds to examine the pitfalls of what the couple’s interactions would be like if Alexa was indeed a mind reader. .”

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2020

Tom Taylor, senior vice president for Amazon Alexa, speaks at the Alexa Accelerator Demo Day in 2018. Voice tech is certainly among that group, according to a top executive on Amazon’s Alexa team. Previously: How Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is changing its tone during the pandemic.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Amazon has expanded sound detection for routines, as well as made Alexa’s prescription refill skill available to Amazon Pharmacy customers. If you want Alexa to detect the chime of your dryer, for example, you can set up a routine for Alexa to send you a notification when your dryer has turned off.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon is launching a new service for property managers called “Alexa for Residential” that makes it easier to deploy and manage voice-enabled devices and experiences in apartment buildings. Amazon says property managers do not have access to any customer data, and voice recordings are automatically deleted daily.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 17, 2020

Amazon and Techstars announced the inaugural cohort of companies in the Alexa Fund's virtual pilot program -- Alexa Next Stage. Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon is expanding its Samuel L. Jackson voice skill for its Alexa digital assistant to include tens of thousands more phrases, including much more of the actor’s iconic expletive-filled delivery. The Jackson partnership launched last December , allowing Alexa users to pay $0.99

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. Amazon is calling the new offering Alexa Custom Assistant. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Amazon Photo). Amazon’s vision of how people will continue to use its voice assistant Alexa includes Echo Frames , a smart glasses product that is moving from invite-only to general availability. The key feature of the smart glasses is Alexa connectivity, via smartphone Bluetooth, right at a user’s temples.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

Amazon toyed with yet another way of ingratiating itself into the lives of you and your family through an Alexa-enabled wearable for kids, Bloomberg reports. The $99 wearable, codenamed “Seeker,” would reportedly feature GPS, voice activation (presumably for some kind of Alexa features), and be targeted for children ages four to 12.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Amazon has two new programs that integrate Alexa into hospitals and senior living communities, the company announced today. They’re run through Alexa Smart Properties, which allows organizations to control a centralized Alexa system. The Alexa program lets them send messages instantly into patient rooms.

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2021

Amazon Halo users will be able to ask Echo speakers and other Alexa-enable devices for updates on their activity scores, sleep quality, body composition and other health information under a new feature announced Thursday morning. A screenshot from the Halo app describes ways to use the Alexa feature.

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