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Amazon's intelligent personal assistant has amassed more than 15,000 skills. If only we could find them
University of Waterloo professor and Canada Research Chair in Technology and Social Change Dr. Lai-Tze Fan analyzed hundreds of Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa's voice-driven skills. Dr. Fan's goal was to better understand how the encoded technology mirrors and reinforces traditionally feminized l...
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“A documentary film, radio, or television program, etc.”– Amazon Alexa’s answer to the question, “What is a documentary?” “A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical ...
Apple. Alexa is a voice that you can ask questions to and get answers, such as “What is the weather today in Chicago?” Alexa has been integrated into many of Amazon’s services and can be used with products such as the originalAmazon Echo,Echo Dot,Echo Spot,Echo Show, orAmazon Fire...
Today,the NBA said all 30 of its teams are launching sets of new Alexa skillsfor the upcoming season, which begins October 17 with the defending champions Golden State Warriors hosting the Houston Rockets. Alexa users will be able to first tell Amazon’s digital assistant which is their favori...
But Amazon knows that none of Alexa’s flashy new features matter much if you can’t find them or figure out how to use them. And rather than build new UIs or clever voice menus, the Alexa team is increasingly leaning into just making the system do the work for you. “We want to ...
"Alexa, let's chat."Credit: Getty Images If you've been wondering when voice assistants would get the generative AI treatment,Amazonhas your answer. On Wednesday, the retail giant previewed an evolved version of Alexa, powered by generative AI. Soon, Amazon's voice assistant technology will ...
Amazon declined to comment directly on the report, but noted that the company has been talking about upcoming AI upgrades to Alexa for months. Alexa has been around for 10 years now and seemed revolutionary when it first launched. As the years went by, though, its functionality has bec...