Amazon is bringing Alexa in-skill purchasing — which allows for developers to generate revenue from voice apps — to Japan, the U.K and Germany, according to reports. The option was introduced in the U.S. last year, and allows developers to get money through apps by the...
Scientists at Amazon’s Alexa division are set to present the first systematic study detailing the advantages of neural text-to-speech (NTTS) systems from multiple speakers. The study revealed in tests involving 70 listeners that a model trained on 5,000 utterances from seven different speakers resulted in...
A new report has revealed that an Amazon team auditing Alexa commands might be able to find a customer’s home address in a matter of minutes. Citing five employees familiar with the program, Bloomberg reported that the team is spread across three continents — transcribing,...
Amazon.com is aiming to enable Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, to keep tabs on customers’ medicine and provide personal health updates. As part of an effort to expand into healthcare, Amazon took the first step last week announcing Alexa is HIPAA-compliant and that five healthcare...
Amazon has launched Alexa for Business Blueprints, which are templates for the company’s voice assistant that will allow users to make and publish private voice skills without having to code them, according to reports. “Private skills are voice-powered capabilities that enhance the Alexa experience while...
Amazon’s Alexa Fund has announced the launch of the third year of the Alexa Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Up to ten companies from around the world will be selected to participate in the 13-week program that gives firms the chance to showcase their own ideas that will...
There are north of 70,000 Alexa skills on the market today, capable of helping consumers do everything from booking an Uber to buying their groceries to playing a trivia game to kill some time while waiting for the pizza ordered via Alexa to arrive. But the ongoing challenge...
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp told The Verge that more than 100 million devices with Alexa integrated into them have been sold so far. According to a report in The Verge, Limp also said without providing more details that Amazon...
Amazon saw the number of skills made for Alexa lodge huge growth in the U.S., U.K. and Germany in 2018. According to a report in voicebot.ai, the number of Alexa skills more than doubled in the U.S., increased 233 percent in the U.K. and grew...
