Amazon has counted on others to spread Alexa everywhere — first developers, then device makers, and most recently everyone else. It’s been about a year since Amazon unveiled Alexa Skill Blueprints, a ...

Amazon.com Inc. is making it easier for companies and content creators to engage consumers via the more than 100 million devices that run Alexa. The company today released an update for Alexa Skill ...

Amazon's Alexa and other digital assistants are changing the way we get information and control our smart homes. They are fundamentally altering the way in which we interact with our computing devices ...

Beginning of the year, Amazon announced its Alexa-hosted skills platform, which is set to make Alexa skill development much easier. The main benefit of Alexa-hosted skills is that it automatically ...

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Alexa, amazon’s voice-based virtual assistance like Siri for the iPhone, and Cortana for Microsoft Windows, is a cloud-based service. When first introduced, it was in the form of ‘Amazon Echo.’ Fast ...

Amazon has introduced a code-free way to make a radio station’s stream discoverable via its Alexa smart speakers. Previously, stations had to go through a streaming aggregator, like TuneIn, or develop ...

Yesterday, Amazon hosted its 3 rd annual Alexa Live event for its 900,000+ developers and countless Alexa device users. Last year's Alexa Live event had many big changes that plotted the future for ...

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