Amazon Echo and Alexa are getting new features.
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If you’re ready for new Amazon Echo and updates from Alexa, you’ll be happy to know that Amazon is working with developers to create a best experience for you. In its Alexa Live 2020 event on July 22, Amazon announced 31 new developer features that will help provide you with a more “natural” experience with Alexa, but we are very excited about three of them.
The newest tools will help you better interact with Alexa and their smart home devices, in addition to having a better experience with applications such as Twitter and TikTok. The new features are available to developers now (some in beta), so you may see them on your device in the coming months. Here are three new features coming to your voice assistant Amazon Echo and Alexa.
Alexa Conversations
Alexa Conversations, currently in beta for developers, will help interact with Alexa by making the voice bot more conversational. Developers will have the ability to add dialog boxes to any command given what they can do. For example, if it says “Alexa, ask Roomba to start vacuuming”, Alexa may ask you if you want the robot vacuum to avoid certain rooms.
Alexa for apps
A new feature for iPhone ($ 699 at Apple) And Android is called Alexa for apps. This tool will allow you to search within an application using Alexa. For example, you can say: “Alexa, ask Twitter to search for #Stimulus checks. “The voice assistant will open the Twitter app on your phone with a list of results that you can explore. Also, if you book a ride through the Uber skill, Alexa will ask you if you want to see the driver’s location on a map on the application
Amazon says Alexa for Apps is also being added to other apps like TikTok, Yellow Pages, Sonic, Zynga, and more.
Alexa will have more ways to interact with you
Alexa’s multimodal feature means you’ll see an update on how you interact with the voice assistant on your Echo Show and Fire tv shows – specifically visually. New gestures will be incorporated in the devices, such as dragging with a single finger, swiping to delete and long pressing, for example. You will also see new editable text boxes where you can enter a text response by touch or with the TV remote control.
Alexa responsive components will also be an option where a linear or circular progress bar is displayed so you can see activity in progress, like loading a page.
Amazon has also recently released other features for its Echo speaker and Alexa assistant, like this one that allows you to go hands-free in the Alexa app. You can also now visit all your Amazon Echo speakers at the same time. However, there are still problems you may experience with your device, such as these. Eight frustrating Amazon Echo issues – they have surprisingly easy solutions.
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