The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From there, you can tell the Astro to go to a specific location either with a voice command or remotely through the app. The Astro can only be paired to a single phone at a time — a security measure to help prevent unauthorized access or use. Lastly, Amazon sees the Astro as the next level of how Alexa can integrate into your home.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

RedRoute , a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence startup, is going after an emerging $350 billion customer service automation sector. That’s when they realized there was an opportunity to fix the back-end channels of customer service and contact centers. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 1, 2022

Amazon's Alexa app brings its immensely popular voice search and control features to many Android and iOS phones. We'll show you how to make the most of it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Amazon is rolling out a new partnership with AT&T today that will let customers link their phone numbers to their Alexa account, allowing them to both make and receive phone calls via their Alexa devices. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. But today’s announcement marks the debut of the feature in the United States.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Auto Mode is a new feature coming to Amazon’s Alexa app that turns your phone into a “driver-friendly display” when used with Alexa auto accessories like the Echo Auto , the company says. However, when we reviewed it for ourselves, we found Alexa wasn’t great at helping with the kinds of queries we had while driving.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

But someone diagnosed with dementia in their 60s today might have been blogging in their 30s, scrolling social media on a phone in their 40s and using a smart home assistant in their 50s. A person with dementia recently introduced us to their voice-activated AI companion, with which they watch and discuss films.

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Engadget

MARCH 24, 2025

It also supports smart controls via the VeSync app, allowing you to tweak settings, set schedules or monitor air quality from your phone. Its 360-degree filtration system uses activated carbon to remove gases and odors, while an efficient middle filter captures 99.97 percent of pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

It also supports smart controls via the VeSync app, allowing you to tweak settings, set schedules or monitor air quality from your phone. Its 360-degree filtration system uses activated carbon to remove gases and odors, while an efficient middle filter captures 99.97 percent of pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

This helps you see what you'll lose access to, such as Audible, Alexa devices, Kindle purchases or Amazon-owned services in other countries. Georgie Peru for Engadget After submitting the request, Amazon will send a confirmation message to your email or phone number. Review the list of services associated with your account.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. Need help sleeping?”

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

He settled on voice. Tawo’s PayTalk, which is one of the first products in Amazon’s Black Founders Build with Alexa Program , uses conversational AI to carry out transactions via smart devices. we … saw that there was increased interest in the use of voice services. .

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Alexa in the Jaguar I-Pace. Jaguar Land Rover announced a software update this week that offers deep Alexa integration for newer vehicle models ( via Bloomberg ). This comes after Amazon’s efforts early last year to open up some of Alexa’s AI to allow car manufacturers to better integrate Alexa into their vehicles.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon is making a small tweak to the Alexa companion app on iOS and Android; in a few days you’ll no longer need to tap the blue Alexa button on your screen to say a voice command, TechCrunch reports. For me, it won’t be very useful until I can use Alexa on my iPhone without unlocking and launching it first.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Last September, Amazon announced a voice assistant alliance ahead of its yearly fall event with the goal to ensure smart devices are compatible with multiple digital assistants concurrently. Yet, Amazon’s biggest rivals in the voice assistant space — Apple, Google, and Samsung — have yet to join.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Siri can now be set as the default voice assistant in the Ecobee SmartThermostat. The Apple voice assistant arrives via a free software update allowing you to say “Hey Siri” to the thermostat to set the temperature, send an intercom message, and use all of Siri’s smart speaker features. Image: Ecobee. Welcome to the future.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Amazon’s Alexa devices are ambient computers, not the kind you use all day. When you do ask your Echo a question or glance at your Echo Show’s diminutive screen, the voice assistant only has a brief chance to impress. Here’s what to expect from those and everything else the company’s announcing at its Alexa Live event today.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Examples: The AI helps verify the veracity of unfamiliar communications like scam phone calls; identifies activities of interest and assists in planning how to participate; offers timely reminders to take medications; and prompts calls to friends and family members on their birthdays.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Furthermore, the new Echo Frames are now available for anyone to buy, as the company transitions the Alexa-equipped glasses from a “Day One Edition” invitation-only device to a full-fledged product. Amazon has announced an upgraded model of its Echo Frames smart glasses , adding better sound quality, longer battery life, and new colors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A mobile app that allows you easily conduct mobile searches by simply speaking into your phone using their new “Speak Now&# technology. It is a must download!

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Credit: Samantha Mangino / Mashable All Echo devices utilize Amazon Alexa's AI superpowers — it's just a matter of which form you want your Echo to take. The Echo and Echo Dot are smart speakers that you can use for music, phone calls, calendar reminders, or news alerts. What can Alexa do?

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Thats not enough for some newer Android phones , though.) Still, it works with nearly all the major streaming apps, and its remote has Alexa built-in, so you can control your TV and certain smart home devices with voice commands. This discount matches the lowest price weve seen. Also at Anker.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2022

While voice commands worked, it was easier to adjust the weights myself One of the first things I bought at the start of the pandemic was a set of adjustable dumbbells. The second is that you can change the weights using voice commands to Alexa. In reality, Alexa was sometimes fast. Other times, Alexa got very confused.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Each has two 5W speakers built in and includes a remote control with voice assistant support for Bixby 2.0, Alexa, and Google Assistant. You can also connect wirelessly via DeX, Samsung’s utility that lets your Galaxy S8 or newer phone power a desktop-like PC experience on the monitor. It’s sounding a lot like a TV, yeah?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Omni series is the higher-end of the two, and beyond offering better picture quality, its other key selling point is hands-free voice control. That’s led by the content-forward Fire TV interface and wide app selection, but Amazon believes that Alexa voice controls add a major convenience factor. Alexa, what should I watch?”

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon is developing a new Alexa-powered device that can track and monitor for signs of sleep apnea using radar, according to a new report from Business Insider. Last month we also saw OnePlus announce a new concept phone that used mmWave radar to monitor breathing. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Underneath that is an additional storage space for things like food and medication, as well as a port for charging phones. The system will also feature voice control by way of Alexa — fitting, given that the Amazon Alexa Fund was one of the startup’s backers (along with SOSV/HAX, iRobot and the National Science Foundation).

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

There's also Alexa support built into the remote, so you can use voice commands to search for content. Beats Studio Pro for $180 (49 percent off): These Beats headphones have improved sound quality, good Transparency mode and USB-C charging, plus decent mic quality for phone calls.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

But when you’re just chilling out at home it’s often easier to turn to your Echo Show or Google Nest Hub to see what’s going on outside, rather than pulling out your phone — or actually getting off the sofa. This lets you bring up a live view of your doorbell camera on a bigger screen with a simple voice command. Select “Set Up Device.”

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Smart plugs can make regular devices controllable through an app on your phone or through voice commands.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But while that vision includes surveillance drones and being followed around your home by a rolling Alexa-on-wheels called Astro , it was missing products for the other place people spend a lot of their time — their cars. Amazon first launched the voice-enabled add-on as a way to get Alexa into cars in 2018.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

Both designs typically allow you to control the lock with your phone or through automations, but neither is particularly discreet. It still allows you to open and close the lock remotely with your phone or your voice through Apple’s HomeKit platform (more on this later) or manually with the same key that you’ve always used.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

At Amazon’s yearly lollapalooza of gadget announcements, the company typically announces literally dozens of new Alexa-connected devices. iPhones have iOS, Samsung phones have Android, Windows computers have, well, Windows. To say that there’s such a thing as a single Alexa platform isn’t really accurate, Limp argues.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The new Show is the first smart display that can follow you around Since its inception in 2015, Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant has always been a disembodied digital form trapped in a box of electronics. Alexa behaves in the same way on all of them: you ask it to do something, then it provides a polite response and does that thing.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This has been a feature of Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant’s smart speakers for a while now (when paired with a Fire TV device or Chromecast), and we’re pleased to see Apple bringing Siri speakers up to par. The voice assistant is coming to other speaker-enabled HomeKit accessories. Add unlimited HomeKit Secure Video cameras.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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The Verge

MARCH 6, 2021

Just like the Move, it will support voice commands for either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Connecting to both at once will allow you to play a song from your phone or another device nearby to the Roam over Bluetooth — and that music can then also be played across the rest of your Sonos multi-room system. Measuring 6.5

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