Tag: Amazon Alexa

The custom-built hardware and software by Lockheed Martin and Amazon will test Alexa, Amazon's voice-based virtual assistant, to respond to the transmitted audio.

New Delhi: US-based advanced technology company iRobot has announced an update to the iRobot HOME App that will let its Roomba robot provide visual post-cleaning maps that display information about its performance. The new Clean Map reports now include information such as the dirtiest floor areas and total space cleaned. Its integration of Amazon Alexa […]

Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd on Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Reliance Jio has acquired Mumbai-based Haptik — one of the world’s largest conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms — for about Rs 700 crore. Reliance will hold about 87 per cent of the business, with the rest being held by Haptik’s founders and employees via stock […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bengaluru: Amazon India on Thursday announced its partnership with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) – Sol’s ARC – to launch an industry first pilot programme to train young adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. This programme will enable their successful integration into the workforce and help them gain financial independence. Amazon.in will work closely with Sol’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mumbai: Amazon has partnered with Megastar Amitabh Bachchan to power the company’s digital assistant, Alexa, as its first celebrity voice experience for its users in India. “Amitabh Bachchan will partner with Amazon to deliver a unique voice experience. To get a flavour, just say ‘Alexa, Say Hello to Mr Amitabh Bachchan’ on any Alexa-enabled device,” […]