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10 coolest things the Amazon Echo Show can do

The Echo Show’s camera and touch screen combine to let you do things the regular Echo can’t. Here are our favorite features.

Tom’s Guide

Alexa will soon let brands answer your questions

Amazon’s virtual assistant will soon let brands answer your questions on its behalf in a move that feels unsettlingly close to advertising.

Evening Standard

Amazon says screw it, lets Alexa respond to search queries with ads

With the new Customers ask Alexa feature, brands can answer customer’s questions directed at Alexa and link them to its storefront.

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The 30 best Alexa skills in 2024

Here are the best Amazon Alexa skills to use with your Amazon Echo smart speaker.

Tom’s Guide

Best Alexa-enabled smart speakers for 2022: Amazon Echo, Sonos One and more

Which smart speaker is right for your home? We decode them to find out

Evening Standard

Warning to anyone who owns Amazon Alexa or Google smart speaker

The devices can collect a staggering amount of data, and even listen in on your conversations

Liverpool Echo

As Amazon grows, so does its eye on consumers

From what you buy online, to how you remember tasks, to when you monitor your doorstep, Amazon is seemingly everywhere

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Amazon announces new word to wake up Alexa

The voice setting for Alexa can be easily changed by uttering a simple phrase

Manchester Evening News

Amazon launches fifth word you can use to wake up Alexa

All wake words options can be used with either the male or female voice options

Wales Online

Amazon's new invention could let you "speak" to the dead — but should it?

Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech giants are circling closer to digital immortality.

Inverse

Best AirPod alternatives: Top wireless earbuds to suit your budget tried and tested

Consummate ear-user Stuart Pritchard turns his aural attention to a selection of the best earbuds for all manner of wireless audio entertainment…

Evening Standard

Amazon Prime Day is back with TV deals and Alexa standing ready to click buy now

Amazon Prime Day is July 12-13 this year, returning to its traditional July schedule after two years of maneuvering around the pandemic. The online behemoth’s big sale was held in October 2020 and in June last year.

Tribune News Service

Amazon Fire 7 Tablet Review: The impressively affordable tablet receives some welcome enhancements

Amazon Fire 7 Tablet latest interaction of entry-level tablets features many improvements making it easier to use than ever

Daily Mirror

Amazon Prime Day's Deepest Discounts

There are serious sales already live on the site, days ahead of Prime Day 2022.

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The Guardian - UK

Amazon Fire 7 2022 review: budget tablet gets design and speed upgrade

Faster chip, longer battery life, newer software and slim recycled plastic body offer serious bang for buck

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Amazon Echo Dot (4th Generation)

Love or loathe the design of the Echo Dot, both audio and Alexa sound better in this budget-friendly ball.

The New Daily

Speak to the dead: Amazon Alexa to use the voice of your lost loved ones

An upcoming update to Alexa will allow users to teach the device to speak using the voice of anyone they want, Amazon has announced.

Daily Mirror

Alexa to speak in the voice of dead relatives 'to make memories last', Amazon says

Amazon has already developed voice synthesising tech to let Alexa mimic the voices of celebrities, but these have required an individual to record dozens of hours of audio

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Amazon Alexa could mimic voices of dead family members 'to make memories last'

The new technology would need about a minute of recorded audio to be fed into the system, which would then be used to construct a whole voice

Daily Record

Amazon Alexa could use voices of dead loved ones 'to make memories last'

The technology will see Alexa mimicking the voice of anyone it hears.

Benzinga

'Hey Alexa, Can Grandma Finish My Bedtime Story?': Amazon Unveils Wildly Strange Feature

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is nearly finished with its four-day Re: MARS conference in Las Vegas, which aims to deliver thoughts from recognized leaders and technical experts in Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space (MARS) fields.

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Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy

Amazon's voice-cloning technology still under development raises concerns among those who study ethics in artificial intelligence.

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Amazon’s Alexa will soon speak to you in your dead grandma’s voice, if that’s a thing you want

The company unveiled the new experimental feature this week, despite no evidence people asked for this.

Wales Online

Amazon Alexa could use voices of the dead 'to make memories last'

The company said its voice assistant will be able to channel dead people and speak as they would in a forthcoming update

Input

Amazon's plan to have Alexa deepfake dead relatives is worse than it sounds

It's hard to fully capture something so brazenly boundary-crossing, but we're going to try our best.

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