Looking for COVID-19 vaccine centres? Amazon Alexa will help you find it
Alexa will help with a list of nearby locations where COVID-19 vaccines are there and users can also enquire about it by asking Alexa to “call the first one” from the list to connect to a specific location. Available in multiple devices, Amazon Alexa will also be able to answer other vaccine-related queries like phone numbers and other details.
Apr 23, 2021, 19:14 PM ISTAmazon introduces Alexa integration for Halo fitness tracker
Amazon has noted that this Alexa integration only allows for Alexa to provide information related to health data captured by Halo. It will not be able to do the tone analysis itself and also will not store the Halo data as part of its responses.
Mar 05, 2021, 16:29 PM ISTAmazon launches its TV lineup; check introductory offer
Amazon India has recently launched its TV lineup in the Indian consumer electronics markets.
Jan 15, 2021, 23:33 PM ISTAmazon adds Hindi support for Alexa on Fire TV
At launch, customers can explore Alexa in Hindi for music, knowledge, personality, smart home, timers and alarms, weather, news, local search, hundreds of skills, and more.
Nov 19, 2020, 17:42 PM ISTAlexa in Hindi turns 1, now available on smartphones in India
The customers can now interact with Alexa in Hindi using the Alexa app on their mobile devices.
Sep 18, 2020, 11:05 AM ISTAmitabh Bachchan first celebrity voice on Amazon Alexa in India
Amitabh Bachchan's voice will be available on Alexa devices next year, the company said.
Sep 14, 2020, 14:55 PM ISTAmazon introduces new home screen design for Alexa app
One will now see the Alexa button at the top of the home screen to make it easier to immediately find the app and start talking.
Jul 28, 2020, 14:55 PM ISTNow, use group Drop In to instantly connect all Amazon Echo devices into a group conversation
Amazon has updated the Alexa which lets you use any supported Amazon Echo device to simultaneously communicate with others.
Jun 02, 2020, 13:20 PM ISTAmazon Alexa to answer coronavirus COVID-19 related queries
In the social distancing times, Alexa can be your daily gyan guru by teaching you a new fact every day.
Amazon Alexa can now help you with traffic and weather updates, read here
Customers can also watch NBA video highlights on any Alexa-enabled device with a screen. It can also provide updates on the 2020 US presidential election.
Mar 06, 2020, 16:46 PM IST
Amazon Alexa offering over 30,000 skills in India
Apart from Hindi, users can respond to Alexa`s English statements in Tamil, Marathi, and other regional languages
Aug 29, 2019, 16:04 PM ISTGoogle Assistant beats Alexa, Siri again on smartphones
In its annual test, research-driven venture capital firm Loup Ventures found that Google Assistant understood every single query and answered correctly 92.9 per cent of the time.
Aug 19, 2019, 10:37 AM ISTDevelopers can now build Hindi skills for Alexa in India
Alexa is currently available in over 80 countries and speaks more than 14 language variants.
Jul 16, 2019, 16:18 PM ISTAmazon Alexa may come to Windows 10 lock screen
By putting Alexa on the lock screen, a Windows 10 PC would be an Alexa smart speaker even when the PC is in sleep mode.
Jul 16, 2019, 15:38 PM ISTAmazon Alexa to talk to you in impeccable Hindi soon
Though the smart speaker is a relatively young product in India, voice assistants like Alexa in smart devices are gaining immense popularity in the country.
Jun 07, 2019, 14:07 PM ISTAmazon to allow users to delete Alexa recordings with voice commands
Currently, a user has to go to the app to delete Alexa recordings one by one, or through Amazon's website to delete every recording at once.
May 30, 2019, 10:47 AM ISTAmazon plans to let devices record before wake word
Currently, Alexa-enabled devices do not understand commands when the wake word is spoken in the middle or end of the sentence.
May 26, 2019, 10:35 AM ISTAlexa to soon adjust audio equaliser via voice
Once the EQ is adjusted, those parameters will apply to all kind of media being played, until re-adjusted.
Jul 24, 2018, 16:57 PM ISTMeet Rohit Prasad, the man from Ranchi whose brainchild is Amazon’s Alexa
Alexa has become a household name in India and other parts of the world. The Amazon module that works on the concept of voice recognition got immensely popular within no time. But do you know who the brain behind the machine is? It is the brainchild of an Indian man, Rohit Prasad, who hails from Jharkhand capital Ranchi.
Jul 23, 2018, 08:46 AM ISTAmazon working on ''smart glasses'' as its first wearable device
The device, designed like a regular pair of spectacles, will reportedly allow Amazon`s digital assistant Alexa to be summoned anytime at all places.
Sep 20, 2017, 12:20 PM IST