Amazon has added generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to its Alexa voice assistant and launched new AI-powered devices ...

The Echo Dot Max is a fine way to interact with Alexa+ and enjoy some tunes, but it doesn't sound nearly as good as some of ...

Alexa can respond to snoring, coughing, a baby crying or a dog barking. Here's how to set up sound detection, plus why you'd even want to. Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at ...

The Echo Dot Max is one of Amazon’s most robust and best-sounding smart speakers yet, though plenty of folks will be served just as well by cheaper options.

If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you ...

Spooky Halloween Sounds will play a continuous loop of unsettling noises until you tell Alexa to stop. Just say, "Alexa, start Spooky Halloween Sounds" to get started. Spooky Sounds plays 50 minutes ...

The 2025 Echo Studio is a more attractive, fully capable smart speaker that sounds even a bit better than the original Studio ...

Amazon Alexa might be getting a cool new feature in the near future. The company plans on offering an update that would allow the AI voice assistant to mimic voices, which basically means that Alexa ...

Alexa just got even more personality. Beginning Thursday, users of Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa can choose to have the device speak in the voices of Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy.

Editor's note: A spokesperson from Amazon reached out to us. In our previous report, we mentioned, " you can tell Alexa to call Amazon Pharmacy and your request will be automatically forwarded." ...

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