Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS), Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA

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"Introducing Alexa Conversations (Preview), a New AI-Driven Approach to Natural Dialogs through the Alexa Skills Kit"

by Drew Meyer
June 5, 2019

 

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Article "Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too"
A US senator asked questions, and Amazon provided answers you might not want to hear.

by Alfred Ng
July 2, 2019

 

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Article "Alexa, Can You Be Used Against Me in Court?"
It’s going to be challenging for any business that has to include such a device in their legal proceedings or regulatory compliance programs. But that won’t stop opposing parties from demanding their inclusion.

by Brian Schrader
July 10, 2019

 

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Article "Stop Amazon employees from listening to your Alexa recordings"
Don't want to run the risk of anyone reviewing your Alexa recordings? Turn this feature off.

by Jason Cipriani
August 6, 2019

 

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Article "Alexa, time for class: How one university put an Echo Dot in every dorm room"
Students at St. Louis University are headed back to school with Alexa in their dorm rooms to help with everything from weather to campus bus schedules.

by Molly Price
August 13, 2019

 

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Article "The complete list of Alexa commands for your Amazon Echo"
Here's everything you can ask Alexa to do. (Dad jokes included.)

by Nelson Aguilar, David Priest
September 17, 2019

 

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Multilingual Alexa update revelead at 2019 Amazon press briefing

Sep 25, 2019

Amazon's newest neural networked, machine-learning text to speech is absolutely incredible, announced today a the amazon press briefing. Now with multi-lingual settings.

 

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Develop Alexa Skills for the PC | Intel Software

Oct 18, 2019

In this video you'll get a look into how to develop Alexa Skills on the PC. Amazon Alexa started on the Echo, making it easy to listen to music, get information, control smart home devices and more. Using Alex is as simple as asking a question.

Now Alexa is available on Windows 10 PCs, giving users access to the tens of thousands of skills already available on Alexa, AND new skills designed specifically for PCs.

 

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Article "Amazon’s AI rewrites ‘millions’ of Alexa user commands to reduce defects by 30%"

by Kyle Wiggers
November 7, 2019

 

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Meet the Alexa Communications team

Dec 23, 2019

The Alexa Communications team’s mission is to bring people closer together by enabling customers to use their Alexa devices for convenient, natural, and expressive conversations with family and friends.

 

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Alexa is a toy? First look at $300 Alexa-powered kids kitchen

Feb 22, 2020

The first toy to interact with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant makes its debut at the New York Toy Fair. The KidKraft Alexa 2-in-1 Kitchen and Market is both a pretend kitchen and grocery store, packed with RFID chips and sensors. When kids start to play with the accessories, Alexa will chime in with recipes, shopping lists, questions, jokes and games. But Alexa is not included — parents would need to provide their own Echo and download the skill to play. Bridget Carey checks out a prototype of this $300 playset, which will be sold next year at Amazon.com.

"The first Alexa toy is a $300 kitchen for kids, packed with dad jokes"
We check out a prototype at New York Toy Fair to see how Amazon's voice assistant plays with preschoolers.

by Bridget Carey
February 22, 2020

KidKraft's Alexa 2-in-1 Kitchen and Market at Toy Fair 2020

Feb 24, 2020

"KidKraft's Alexa-powered toy kitchen sizzles and tells dad jokes"
Kids can't resist a good hot dog gag.

by Kris Naudus
February 23, 2020

 

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Alexa Answers demo on an Amazon Echo

Nov 2, 2019

Alexa Answers, Amazon's crowdsourced database of answers to questions, contains questionable content.

Problems with Alexa Answers -- Part 2

Mar 11, 2020

Alexa Answers, which crowdsources answers to questions to which Alexa doesn't yet have an answer, isn't a perfect platform. These problematic submissions made it past manual and automatic filters.

 

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My favorite hidden Alexa trick

Apr 16, 2020

Make Amazon's assistant say whatever you want with a custom skill. Alexa is great at controlling your smart home, checking the weather, playing music and more. Beyond the basics, you can teach your Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker to say whatever you want in response to your commands. Boost your ego, reinforce bedtime, settle an argument and more.

We use an Amazon Echo Dot in this video, but the trick will work with any Amazon Echo Smart speaker. We walk you through the steps here.

 

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What to do when Alexa's annoying you

Jul 13, 2020

Alexa is a great digital assistant, but it isn't perfect. Here are a few ways it can get on my nerves and what to do about them, on any Alexa-enabled device (Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, etc).

 

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Introducing Alexa Conversations

July 22, 2020

Watch the Alexa Live 2020 keynote address introduction to Alexa Conversations.

Alexa Conversations (beta) is an AI-driven approach to dialog management that enables you to create skills that customers can interact with in a natural, unconstrained way - using the phrases they prefer, in the order they prefer – while freeing you to focus on the highest value parts of your experience. Unlike traditional dialog managers, with Alexa Conversations (beta) you do not have to code or even identify all of the different ways customers might interact. Instead, you provide a set of example dialogs and how they map to specific services in your skill. Alexa Conversations (beta) applies deep learning to extrapolate the many possible dialog paths that customers might use, and uses this learning in real-time to automatically manage customer interactions. This includes keeping track of state, maintaining context, accepting customer-driven corrections, and then calling your services at the right time.

 

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Article "Amazon's Alexa event shows the future of the Echo's voice assistant"
Amazon hasn't revealed any major new Alexa-powered hardware this year, but today's Alexa Live developer conference gives insights into its voice-centric priorities moving forward.

by David Priest
July 22, 2020

 

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Article "10 new Alexa features to try on your Amazon Echo"
Amazon added several new tricks and tools to its Echo devices and Alexa app.

by Katie Teague
August 18, 2020

 

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How to build a Smart Home with Alexa

Sep 18, 2020

If you're looking to expand and build a smart home with Amazon Alexa the combination of adding Homey is a match made in heaven. Enhance the voice control capabilities of Alexa, to include the complete range of over 50,000 smart home devices that Homey integrates with.

Download Homey's Alexa Skill, discover your smart home devices, and use Alexa to control your smart home with Homey.

Learn more about how Alexa works with Homey at homey.app/en-us/talks-with-homey/amazon-alexa

 

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Article "Amazon's Alexa gets a new brain on Echo, becomes smarter via AI and aims for ambience"
Amazon's new Echo devices are more like edge computing hardware in enterprises where the AI processing is going local. The upshot is that Alexa will be more ambient in the smart home, but most likely coming to work with you.

by Larry Dignan
September 24, 2020

 

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Article "Amazon’s new Alexa feature uses AI to infer what users really want"

by Kyle Wiggers
November 11, 2020