Making Alexa learn Hindi: ‘We built a rich vocabulary to understand context’
2 years, 10 months ago

Making Alexa learn Hindi: ‘We built a rich vocabulary to understand context’

Hindustan Times  

Four years is a long time. Every day, Alexa users demand 21.6 lakh songs, there are 1.7 lakh queries including about cricket, 8.6 lakh request within the Amazon Shopping app and 2.6 lakh smart home control commands sent out. While Assistant was part of Android phones, it was only after Amazon’s aggressive push with Alexa in 2018 and beyond, did Google react with the Nest smart speakers. “In the initial days, you had to go to settings, you had to change your language, whereas now everything is seamless,” says Kumar, talking about Alexa’s ‘Hinglish’ understanding skills. Echo line-up of smart speakers, Echo Show smart displays, Fire TV devices, the Amazon app on Android phones and a long list of third-party brands that have Alexa built-in and Works With Alexa labelling on certain products — these include laptops made by HP, TVs by OnePlus, Samsung and LG, smartwatches by Amazfit, Boat and Noise, audio products by Bang & Olufsen, Marshall and Bose as well as smart home products by Qubo, Ecobee and Syska.

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Amazon's new AI-powered Alexa to give services partnering with Uber, Instacart, and others: Report
1 month ago

Amazon's new AI-powered Alexa to give services partnering with Uber, Instacart, and others: Report

Hindustan Times  

Amazon's new AI-powered Alexa may launch in the US with several corporate partners who can handle tasks for users such as ride-hailing, grocery shopping, and restaurant reservations, according to a Business Insider report. The Amazon logo is seen on the exterior wall of the Amazon OXR1 fulfillment center in Oxnard, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 These partners include Uber …

Amazon says Alexa AI can now talk to you 'like a human' with new Let’s Chat feature
1 year, 3 months ago

Amazon says Alexa AI can now talk to you 'like a human' with new Let’s Chat feature

Live Mint  

Amazon has now added generative AI capabilites to Alexa in a bid to keep the software relevant in the age of coversational chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. {{^adFree}} {{/adFree}} According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon is trying to show that Alexa can compete with chatbots by Google and OpenAI that have shown incredible ability to hold human-like conversations. …

Amazon's Alexa sees 21% surge in multilingual mode usage, nearly half of Echo users prefer multilingual mode interaction
1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon's Alexa sees 21% surge in multilingual mode usage, nearly half of Echo users prefer multilingual mode interaction

Live Mint  

Amazon announces 21% increase in use of multilingual mode on Alexa in India, with nearly half of Echo users using it. As Alexa celebrates four years since launching Hindi and multilingual mode in India, Amazon announced that millions of customers across the country have embraced the captivating experience of voice interactions with Alexa. “Remarkably, almost 1 out of every 2 …

Indians Interacted With Alexa 68% More in 2021
2 years, 10 months ago

Indians Interacted With Alexa 68% More in 2021

News 18  

With almost 50 per cent customers from non-metro cities, the number of requests to Alexa in 2021 increased by 68 per cent since the previous year, Amazon India said on Tuesday. “We are constantly working to make Alexa more useful and delightful for customers in India with launches such as our most advanced Echo Show 10 with intelligent motion, India’s …

Alexa Turns 3 in India: Amazon Offering Bestselling Audible Audiobooks Free of Cost for Limited Period
3 years, 10 months ago

Alexa Turns 3 in India: Amazon Offering Bestselling Audible Audiobooks Free of Cost for Limited Period

News 18  

Amazon India announced the third anniversary of Alexa in India earlier this week. As a part of the celebrations for Alexa users in the country, Amazon Audible is offering three of its best-selling audiobooks free of cost for a limited period. To access these audiobooks on Amazon Echo or any Alexa-powered devices, users will need to say, “Alexa, what’s free …

Amazon users in India said 'I love you' more than 19,000 times to Alexa in 2020
3 years, 10 months ago

Amazon users in India said 'I love you' more than 19,000 times to Alexa in 2020

Firstpost  

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa has completed three years in India. In addition to this, consumers in India also said ‘I love you’ to Alexa more than 19,000 times in 2020 alone, which is up by 1,200 percent as compared to 2019. Reportedly, the voice assistant also saw many requests for guided meditation, workout music, games and learning skills, and content …

Did you know India proposed to Alexa 6,000 times a day in 2020?
3 years, 10 months ago

Did you know India proposed to Alexa 6,000 times a day in 2020?

The Hindu  

Last year, ‘loneliness’ was an unfortunate buzzword owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. According to data shared by Amazon India, Indians expressed their love for the IoT assistant around 19,000 times a day by saying ‘Alexa, I love you’, and even went so far as to pop the question around 6,000 times a day. Speaking of Bollywood, users in India asked …

Amazon Alexa Turns 3 In India And Many More Folks Are Saying Alexa, I Love You
3 years, 10 months ago

Amazon Alexa Turns 3 In India And Many More Folks Are Saying Alexa, I Love You

News 18  

Amazon’s Virtual Assistant Alexa will be three years young in India on February 15. The assistant, the very foundation of Amazon’s Echo line-up of smart speakers and smart displays, completes three years in India and there are some pretty interesting usage trends that have emerged with how Indians are interacting with their Amazon Echo smart speakers, Amazon Fire TV devices, …

Govt working on Alexa, Google Assistant-like chatbots to deliver public services
3 years, 11 months ago

Govt working on Alexa, Google Assistant-like chatbots to deliver public services

India Today  

The Indian government could be working on platforms similar to Alexa and Google Assistant to deliver e-governance services. "The platform should be able to provide assistance with general tasks, inclu ding but not limited to availing services of government and available on the UMANG platform such as registration, login, reset the password, department service relation information, event, new launch.etc," the …

Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Devices Get Live Translation Support for Six Languages Including Hindi
4 years ago

Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Devices Get Live Translation Support for Six Languages Including Hindi

News 18  

Amazon is updating its Alexa voice assistant with a new feature that would users to use Live Translation. The feature uses Amazon’s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, German or Italian. To use the Live Translation, users would need to activate Alexa with the command, “Alexa, …

Amazon Fire TV Devices Can Now Communicate in Hindi, New Alexa Routines Support Added
4 years, 1 month ago

Amazon Fire TV Devices Can Now Communicate in Hindi, New Alexa Routines Support Added

News 18  

Amazon is now extending Hindi language support to its Alexa-enabled Fire TV devices starting today. According to Amazon, with the Hindi language support, users can not only open apps on the Fire TV via Hindi voice commands but also manage connected smart home appliances with the same language option. Amazon is also rolling out a new feature namely, Alexa Routines …

Amazon Brings Hindi Language Support to Alexa Smartphone App
4 years, 3 months ago

Amazon Brings Hindi Language Support to Alexa Smartphone App

News 18  

Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is getting Hindi language support for its smartphone app in India, the company announced in a statement today. Amazon launched Hindi support on the Alexa app to commemorate the first anniversary of Alexa’s Hindi support in India. “India’s unique cultural and linguistic diversity has always inspired us to make Alexa more local and relevant for users …

Alexa, Say Hello to Mr Amitabh Bachchan: Amazon Assistant Gets First Indian Celeb Voice
4 years, 3 months ago

Alexa, Say Hello to Mr Amitabh Bachchan: Amazon Assistant Gets First Indian Celeb Voice

News 18  

Amitabh Bachchan is set to come to Amazon Alexa. Starting 2021, Amazon India has confirmed that the legendary Bollywood actor will become the first Indian celebrity whose voice will feature on the Alexa voice assistant. In a press statement issued upon the announcement, Puneesh Kumar, chief executive and managing director of Alexa India, said, “Mr Bachchan’s voice is truly memorable …

Alexa gets a language lesson... from Susie Dent!
4 years, 3 months ago

Alexa gets a language lesson... from Susie Dent!

Daily Mail  

It has been baffled by some of our regional accents, with frustrating if occasionally hilarious results. Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent, who worked with the firm to teach the voice assistant, said: 'Nowhere is the diversity of English vocabulary more apparent than in Britain. Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent, who worked with the firm to teach the voice assistant, said: 'Nowhere is …

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