Amazon, Dish, Comcast and others are hoping to turn Super Bowl 2019 into a way to show off the potential for their voice technologies and TV integrations. The companies this week have been touting new features and a variety of voice commands that will allow viewers to get prepared for the big game, learn about […]
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Amazon reports better than expected Q4, but lowers Q1 guidance
Amazon had a heck of a holiday. The online retail giant posted Q4 earnings today, reporting $72.4 billion in revenue, topping last year’s $60.45 billion and besting the analysts’ forecast of $71.92 billion. Extremely wealthy individual Jeff Bezos singled out Alexa’s record holiday season as a source of the robust quarter. “Alexa was very busy […]
View More Amazon reports better than expected Q4, but lowers Q1 guidanceHere’s why Amazon’s Super Bowl ad won’t trigger Alexa
South Park famously annoyed the world by triggering Echo and Google Home devices with familiar wake words. When Amazon’s at the wheel, however, the company is able to ensure that Alexa stays quiet using a method called acoustic fingerprinting. In the lead-up to the Super Bowl, the company’s offered a (relatively) easy-to-understand breakdown of why […]
View More Here’s why Amazon’s Super Bowl ad won’t trigger AlexaAmazon has paused sales of its Echo Wall Clock due to connectivity issues
Amazon launched an Echo Wall Clock before the end of the last year but, less than a month later, things aren’t running to schedule. The e-commerce giant has paused the sale of the $30 Alexa-powered smart clock after a number of customers reported connectivity issues, according to The Verge. The clock is still listed on Amazon but, […]
View More Amazon has paused sales of its Echo Wall Clock due to connectivity issuesThe Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is only $49.99 today, and that’s its lowest price ever.
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If you’re shopping for a tablet but are doing so on a budget, just know that the Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is $30 off and just $49.99 today — and it has literally never been cheaper.
The tablet market was truly turned upside down when Amazon debuted the Fire tablet. Getting an HD display, Dolby Atmos audio, and hands-free Alexa for about 13% of what the cheapest iPad costs is a pretty amazing feat — and Amazon claims the HD tablets are twice as durable as the iPad, too. Read more…
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View More The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is only $49.99 today, and that’s its lowest price ever.NPR turns comedy game show ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ into an Alexa and Google voice app
NPR is turning its popular game show program “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” into a voice application for smart speakers, including both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant-powered devices. The new app lets listeners play along at home by answering the fill-in-the-blank questions from this week’s news – just like the players do on the NPR podcast […]
View More NPR turns comedy game show ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!’ into an Alexa and Google voice appAlexa gets a professional ‘newscaster’ voice for reading the day’s news
Amazon already gave Alexa the ability to whisper, and now it’s rolling out another way to change the assistant’s speaking style – it’s giving Alexa a “newscaster” voice. Starting today, when U.S. customers ask Alexa “what’s the latest?” to hear the day’s news, Alexa will respond using a voice that’s similar to how a professional […]
View More Alexa gets a professional ‘newscaster’ voice for reading the day’s newsWrest control from a snooping smart speaker with this teachable “parasite”
What do you get when you put one Internet connected device on top of another? A little more control than you otherwise would in the case of Alias the “teachable ‘parasite’” — an IoT project smart speaker topper made by two designers, Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen. The Raspberry Pi-powered, fungus-inspired blob’s mission is to […]
View More Wrest control from a snooping smart speaker with this teachable “parasite”The Sims gets its own in-game Alexa-style assistant, Lin-Z
There’s nothing like The Sims to log off from reality for a bit. Getting away from the increasingly ubiquitous world of smart assistants, on the other hand, is a different matter entirely. EA announced this week that the perennial favorite life simulation series is getting its very own smart assistant. Lin-Z is a lot like […]
View More The Sims gets its own in-game Alexa-style assistant, Lin-ZAmazon upgrades its Fire TV Stick with the new Alexa Voice Remote
Amazon is giving its Fire TV Stick an upgrade. The company announced today it will now ship the Fire TV Stick with the new version of the Alexa Voice Remote launched last fall. The remote allows users to control other devices besides their Fire TV, thanks to its support for both Bluetooth and multi-directional infrared. […]
View More Amazon upgrades its Fire TV Stick with the new Alexa Voice RemoteThe NYT gets into voice with 5 new Alexa skills, including a daily briefing, quiz and more
The New York Times is expanding its efforts around audio programming and voice assistants, the company announced today. The NYT says it’s launching a daily flash briefing for Alexa devices, as well as an interactive news quiz, and – in an interesting twist – it will be introducing “enhanced coverage” in its Sunday paper that […]
View More The NYT gets into voice with 5 new Alexa skills, including a daily briefing, quiz and moreAlexa Privacy Nightmares
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