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06 Apr 2024

Anand Mahindra Offers Job Opportunity To Girl Who Used Alexa To Scare Off Monk

The girl instructed Alexa to mimic a dog's bark in an attempt to frighten off the monkey that had entered her sister's house.

19 Jan 2024

Report Suggests Potential Paid Subscription For Upgraded Amazon Alexa

Business Insider reports that Amazon is working on an upgrade for its AI voice assistant potentially named Remarkable Alexa.

10 Jan 2024

Alexa Gets Three New AI-Powered Skills, You Will Be Surprised To Know

Amazon has introduced three innovative generative AI skills for Alexa, including Character.AI for real-time conversations with various personas, Splash for creating custom songs of specified genres, and Volley Games, an AI-driven twist on the 20 questions game.

20 Aug 2023

Amazon Alexa Accused Of ‘Sexist’ Reply To Question About The Lionesses

Academic Joanne Rodda, a senior lecturer in psychiatry at Kent and Medway Medical School, said it showed "sexism in football was embedded in Alexa”.

31 May 2023

Alexa Can No Longer Talk Like Amitabh Bachchan

The feature is going away globally, plus Amazon will discontinue support for celebrity voices on Alexa-powered devices in the coming days.

31 May 2023

Alexa Can No Longer Talk Like Amitabh Bachchan

The feature is going away globally, plus Amazon will discontinue support for celebrity voices on Alexa-powered devices in the coming days.

07 May 2023

Amazon Alexa To Be More Interactive With ChatGPT Like Features

To power a newer, more advanced Alexa, Amazon is depending on a large language model (LLM) that was built internally in contrast, Microsoft's Bing employs the model from OpenAI.

11 Nov 2022

Amazon to lay off employees? E-commerce giant reviewing unprofitable business

After Twitter, Meta, Amazon is also taking cost-cutting measures Amazon has told employees in some unprofitable units to look for jobs elsewhere Amazon's Alexa unit has posted an operating loss of more than $5 billion a year

23 Jun 2022

Amazon Alexa to soon read stories in even dead people’s voice

Alexa will be read or speak your preferred bedtime stories using the new feature currently being worked upon by Amazon. The upcoming feature is currently in the works. Amazon has announced to host its annual Alexa Live developers event on July 20.

31 Dec 2021

Deshhit: Watch the big news of the day in detail

This segment of Zee News brings detailed news stories of the day.

31 Dec 2021

DNA: Children trapped in Alexa's magic are in danger

Alexa gave such a dangerous challenge to a 10-year-old girl in America, which could have killed the girl due to electric shock. This news is for those people who depend excessively on Artificial Intelligence.

30 Dec 2021

Deshhit: Watch nation's top news in detail, Dec 30, 2021

This segment of Zee News brings detailed news stories of the day.

29 Dec 2021

SHOCKING! Alexa told 10 years old child to do dangerous penny challenge

The device seemingly pulled the idea for the challenge from an article describing it as dangerous, citing news reports about an alleged challenge trending on TikTok.

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14 Sep 2021

Can Alexa and Siri make your kids bossier?

Children love jokes from Siri and Alexa They also ask the devices to make different sounds

03 Sep 2021

Amazon could launch Alexa-powered TV in October: Report

Amazon is now looking to add smart televisions to its lineup. Amazon is unlikely to have in-house manufacturing for the televisions. Amazon is also reportedly working on a TV designed in-house.

01 Sep 2021

Alexa new feature: Voice-assistant to speak louder in noisy backgrounds

The feature will detect noise backgrounds like the sound of a dishwasher, people talking, or music playing on another device. In Whisper Mode, Alexa will whisper its response if you talk to it quietly. You can activate the mode by asking Alexa to "turn on whisper mode".

19 Aug 2021

Amitabh Bachchan’s voice can reply to your ‘Hi, Alexa’

Indian customers can choose to add Bachchan's voice to their Alexa experience on Echo devices. Customers need to pay Rs 149 for one year. The celebrity experience features content handpicked by Bachchan’s stories from his life.

22 Jul 2021

Amazon Alexa’s male counterpart Ziggy is here! Check how to switch voices

Users can simply request the voice assistants to change their voice. Amazon’s smart devices such as Amazon Echo speakers with voice assistant support will have Alexa as the built-in voice. Users can ask Ziggy to use Amazon’s voice assistant in Alexa’s voice.

03 Jul 2021

Amazon asked to change Alexa’s name by parents in UK, here’s why

Alexa is Amazon’s voice assistant. The ecommerce major had rolled out the voice assistant in 2015. There are over 4000 people named Alexa in the UK.

17 May 2021

Revealed: The women behind Alexa's iconic voice

The author of the book 'Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire', Brad stone reveals the identity of the person who gave her voice to Alexa

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