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4 new Alexa built-in devices available in India next month

Bengaluru: Four Indian manufacturers on Monday announced to launch new products like portable headsets, smart speakers and set-top boxes with the Amazon Alexa built-in. The hardware manufacturers are iBall, Sirena Technologies, boAt and MyBox who have integrated Alexa into their products with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) which enables developers to integrate Alexa directly into […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Amazon Alexa brings 'Amar Chitra Katha' quiz for kids

New Delhi: Using simple voice commands with Alexa, your kids will now be able learn about the stories from “Amar Chitra Katha” and know about the animal kingdom from Shikari Shambu of “Tinkle”, thanks to a new range of Alexa skills that Amazon launched specifically for children under 13 years of age in India. These […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Yerha launches Amazon Alexa-enabled smartwatch in India

New Delhi: Delhi-based e-commerce portal Yerha.com on Friday launched a new smartwatch which is powered by Alexa, an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon. Priced at Rs 13,900, iMCO Watch includes alarm, alternate timezone, calendar, music Bluetooth control, notifications, step counter, heart rate monitor, stopwatch, timer, weather and speed dial. “With iMCO, we continue to […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Op-Ed: Big Brother Is Watching You

Let me, for a change, start with a joke – and a scary one at that. Given the speed and frequency at which WhatsApp forwards move these days, it is possible many of you have already read it. But still, I could not resist the temptation to share it because it succinctly sums up the […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
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Amazon Alexa to talk to you in impeccable Hindi soon

Las Vegas: India is a key growth market for Alexa’s global team at Amazon and witnessing the potential, the team is working on to introduce more regional language capabilities in the voice-based assistant that has stormed the living rooms in the country. Though the smart speaker is a relatively young product in India, voice assistants like […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Amazon sued again for Alexa recording kids' voices

San Francisco: In yet another lawsuit, Amazon has been sued by a Massachusetts woman, who on behalf of her 10-year-old daughter and children from eight other states, is seeking class-action status to sue the e-commerce giant. Filed in a Federal court in Seattle, the lawsuit alleges Amazon of saving ‘voice prints’ of millions of children […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
Amazon Alexa may come to Windows 10's lock screen

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft would allow Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa to activate on the lock screen in the next update to Windows 10. Microsoft’s new update follows changes to Cortana in Windows 10, as it moves to a separate app in the Microsoft Store and away from the built-in search experience in the operating […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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Chat With Amazon Alexa In Hindi Or Hinglish In India

New Delhi: In a bid to make deeper inroads in the Hindi-speaking population in India, Amazon on Wednesday brought Hindi and Hinglish capabilities to its voice assistant Alexa on the Echo family of voice-controlled smart speakers. To get started with Hindi, just ask, “Alexa, help me set up Hindi.” Existing Echo customers in India can […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
Amazon Leading Push To Make All Voice Assistants Compatible

San Francisco: US tech multinational Amazon announced that it will lead an initiative to make different voice assistants like Alexa and Cortana compatible among themselves and with all the different mobile devices on the market, a move for which the firm has obtained the support of more than 30 companies. A day before the company […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Wear Alexa On Your Ring Finger Soon

Seattle: Realising that more and more Indians want to marry her (more than a million proposed her recently and she declining all of them), Alexa has decided to come closer to you — in the form of a smart ring that you can soon wear, even if you can still not tie the nuptial knot […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Speak To Alexa And Pay Bills Via Amazon Pay In India

Bengaluru: In an India-first feature, Amazon on Wednesday announced that users can now pay their utility bills with Amazon Pay just by speaking to its digital assistant Alexa in the country. The new Alexa feature supports payment of bills across categories such as electricity, water, post-paid mobile, cooking gas, broadband, DTH and more. Users of […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Amazon To Support Utility Bill Payments With Alexa

San Francisco: Amazon has said that employing its Alexa voice assistant the company would be partnering with fintech company Paymentus to add a feature which will allow customers to pay bills online or else by voice. The US e-commerce giant made the announcement at the Money 20/20 financial technology conference. The new feature will allow […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Help Alexa Learn More Indian Languages Says Amazon India

New Delhi: As Alexa in Hindi celebrates its first anniversary in India, the company is hopeful that her knowledge graph will improve and it will talk to millons of people in several regional languages in the near future. Today, users from India make hundreds of thousands of requests in a day to Alexa in Hindi […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Amazon Adds Hindi Support For Alexa On Fire TV

New Delhi: Amazon on Thursday announced that it is now adding Hindi as new language support for Alexa on Fire TV. The experience includes Hindi interactions for Alexa on Fire TV, local knowledge, information, hundreds of skills and more in Hindi. Customers who choose Hindi as their device language will also see Fire TV rows […]

  • Friday, 09 April 2021
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