The traditional Alexa voice never changed on the half-a-billion ... it was not clear LLMs would be able to trigger these real ...

Packaged inside a Pringles can-shaped speaker called an Echo, Alexa moved into 5 million homes in just two years, including my own. The Verge explores how far the voice assistant has come in a ...

Between the "smart" assistant's 2014 introduction and late 2022, Amazon's Worldwide Digital unit lost over $10 billion on ...

While the original Echo and Google Home were relatively popular, it was the introduction of their smaller, more affordable ...

For the voice, [Thomas] decided to use the CRT ... he turned it into a rudimentary oscilloscope that shows Alexa’s waveform in real time. An acrylic enclosure shields the CRT’s high voltage ...

Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers and voice assistant Alexa cannot call 911 for you. They won't reliably report your location and don't offer a callback number, so they don't meet the ...

Alexa didn’t get a big splashy launch event, or come with a bunch of grand proclamations about being the future of anything. Instead, like a phone charger with a made-up name or a knockoff version of ...

Amazon.com (AMZN) stock is trading higher Wednesday on news the company is in the process of launching an upgraded version of its Alexa voice assistant ... features such as real-time translation ...

Earlier rumors suggested that the company was gunning to make Alexa a real contender against AI chatbots ... which has been ...