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Amazon is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to ...
Plus, generative AI workloads are expensive thanks to the hardware and computing power required. One source estimated the cost of using generative AI in Alexa at 2 cents per query, and said a $20 ...
The company said that the difference was the result of a random price test and offered to refund customers who paid higher prices. [328] Amazon had experimented with random price tests in 2000, when customers comparing prices on a bargain-hunter website discovered that Amazon randomly offered the Diamond Rio MP3 player for substantially less ...
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [3] [4] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
Amazon insists that its Alexa voice-enabled assistant does not have any political opinions — and that Alexa’s responses explaining why someone should vote for VP Kamala Harris were a mistake.
Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n / ⓘ, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]
Echo's voice recognition capability is based on Amazon Web Services and the voice platform Amazon acquired from Yap, [12] Evi, and IVONA [13] (a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies used in the Kindle Fire). [14] The device requires one time setup by pairing it with Amazon's Alexa app, which gives the user more control over features. [15]
Alexa-powered Echo devices can also make phone calls, either to numbers in your contact list (which can be imported into the Alexa app) or any number you ask Alexa to dial. One exception: 911.