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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 Conner
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 Alexa: How developers use AI to help Alexa understand what you mean and not what you say"

by Bill Detwiler
September 25, 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

 

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Article "Amazon launches Alexa Care Hub for elder and family care"
Family members will be able to personalize alerts, check in with relatives and call for help with simple commands.

by David Priest
November 11, 2020

 

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Article "Amazon shifts some voice assistant, face recognition computing to its own chips"

by Stephen Nellis
November 12, 2020

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Article "Teachable AI will help Alexa users set up preferences"

by Kyle Wiggers
December 11, 2020

 

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Article "Alexa to summon the Queen as Amazon Echo airs Christmas broadcast"
Users of smart speakers around the world can hear monarch’s speech without lifting a finger

by Alex Hern
December 20, 2020

 

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Article "Amazon launches Alexa Guard Plus subscription service"
The new service can play dogs barking when your connected cameras spot would-be intruders, along with other clever features.

by David Priest
January 25, 2021

 

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"Announcing General Availability for Alexa Conversations"

by Drew Meyer
March 1, 2021

 

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Article "Every Alexa command you can give your Amazon Echo smart speaker or display"
From scheduling your lights to monitoring your home's security, Alexa's got you covered.

by Dale Smith, Tauren Dyson, David Priest, Taylor Martin
March 8, 2021

 

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Article "Multitasking chatbots are the new Amazon Alexa Prize challenge"

by Kyle Wiggers
March 11, 2021

 

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Article "The funniest things to ask Alexa"

by Erika Rawes
March 3, 2021

 

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Article "Alexa, who are you? New book identifies Amazon’s secret voiceover artist"
Brad Stone writes that voice for Amazon’s virtual assistant, which the company has never revealed, is Colorado-based Nina Rolle

by Oliver Milman
May 11, 2021

 

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Article "Alexa finally gets a new name and voice: How to switch them up on your Amazon Echo"
Now Alexa has a masculine-sounding voice option and you can call your device Ziggy. Plus, you can mix and match.

by Dale Smith
July 26, 2021