Topic > Alexa
Amazon releases long-form speaking style for Alexa skills
Huawei to launch multilingual voice assistant Celia, starting on the P40 flagship in 6 countries
Analysis
How Alexa and Google Assistant can do a better job talking about coronavirus
Alexa Answers expands to more countries, but still isn’t properly vetted
Amazon can now find a cappella and acoustic versions of songs
Alexa can now send driving directions to your phone on your way out the door
Amazon researchers improve Alexa’s ability to parse commands
Amazon reports $87.4 billion in Q4 2019 revenue: AWS up 34%, subscriptions up 32%, and ‘other’ up 41%
Amazon details the AI behind Alexa’s Whisper Mode
Opinion
ProBeat: A smart speaker does not a smart home make
Royole shows Mirage smart speaker with wraparound OLED screen and Alexa
Amazon is pushing Alexa deeper into the automotive market
Too much, yet not enough: Amazon’s Echo Studio, Echo Flex, and Fire TV Cube
10 things to try with your new Amazon Echo speaker
Amazon’s Alexa Knowledge Skills enables voice-guided FAQs, glossaries, and more
Facebook’s Portal now lets you sing on an AR stage
Amazon researchers use AI to improve Alexa’s joke selection
AI Weekly: Amazon plays the long game in health care AI
Black Friday 2019: The best Alexa Gadgets, from microwaves to twerking bears
Opinion
ProBeat: Alexa, what is the worst shopping website? ‘I’m a big fan of Amazon.’
AI Weekly: With AI-empowered devices, consider what you’re buying
Alexa controls for kitchen appliances, shades, and garage door openers are generally available
Alexa Wi-Fi Access is Amazon’s answer to Nest Wifi voice controls
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices
Amazon researchers use NLP data set to improve Alexa’s answers
Virtual Beings Summit LA to highlight Hollywood’s view of artificial people
StatMuse combined its NLP stack with Matthew Berry’s fantasy football predictions
Amazon’s AI rewrites ‘millions’ of Alexa user commands to reduce defects by 30%
Microsoft is banking Cortana’s success on the idea of a multi-assistant world
Amazon is poorly vetting Alexa’s user-submitted answers
Amazon’s voice-based Alexa skill personalization is now generally available
Alexa gains lighting features like sleep timers and dimming Routines
Review
Amazon Echo Buds review: Hands-free Alexa and competitive sound quality
Amazon expands Alexa Gadgets toolkit to 12 more regions
Amazon will let you pay bills with Alexa
Amazon researchers reduce data required for AI transfer learning
Amazon launches in-skill purchasing for Alexa kid skills
Amazon reports $70.0 billion in Q3 2019 revenue: AWS up 35%, subscriptions up 34%, and ‘other’ up 44%
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