Alexa

Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. Alexa is a cloud-based voice service that allows users to add products to a wish list, re-order items, check order status, and more - using just their voice.

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Amazon Surges On Wall Street Beat
Amazon Surges On Wall Street Beat
April 28, 2017  |  Amazon

When it comes to reporting quarterly earnings, there’s beating Wall Street’s expectations, really beating them, and then there is what Amazon did yesterday. Eight straight...

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What Not To Wear — Amazon Alexa Edition
What Not To Wear — Amazon Alexa Edition
April 27, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Getting style tips or picking out clothes using a computing device sounds futuristic, yet familiar. While there isn’t a Cher-style program, like the one in...

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Dialpad Integrates Amazon Echo And Alexa Into Its Cloud Telephone Service
Dialpad Integrates Amazon Echo And Alexa Into Its Cloud Telephone Service
April 26, 2017  |  Amazon

Dialpad, a cloud-based business communications platform, announced Tuesday (April 25) an integration with Amazon Echo that enables users to perform business phone tasks by voice...

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Just Say No (To Ads?)
Voice-Activated Tracker: Just Say No (To Ads?)
April 25, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Two voice-activated giants have made themselves clear: No ads until we say so. The first was a major media story. Google had to step and...

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Chatbot Tracker: Helping Productivity
Chatbot Tracker: Helping Productivity
April 25, 2017  |  Chatbots

Chatbots have moved into a unique position over the past few years. Rather than using chatbots to resolve customer service issues solely on company websites or...

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Amazon’s Future Is In AI, Logistics, AWS
Amazon’s Future Is In AI, Logistics, AWS
April 25, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

As Amazon’s Q1 earnings report quickly approaches, here’s a glimpse of the future. Amazon is hardly a stranger to reinvention. Lest we forget, the online...

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New Amazon Alexa Policy Banning Ads?
New Amazon Alexa Policy Banning Ads?
April 21, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Under the radar, Amazon made some changes to its Alexa Skills Developer agreement. To help lessen the amount of advertisements that appear on Alexa’s voice...

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Amazon Sets Lex (The Tech Behind Alexa) Loose
Amazon Sets Lex (The Tech Behind Alexa) Loose
April 20, 2017  |  Amazon

Alexa’s been in the spotlight for awhile now as Amazon’s darling voice-activated AI assistant. But the deep learning technologies behind the voice of Echo, Echo...

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Amazon Helps The World Build Better Bots
Amazon Helps The World Build Better Bots
April 20, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

The race to voice-activated software is on. This week, Amazon announced it’s rolling out the technology behind its voice assistant Alexa. With this information, developers have...

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