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Amazon launches a version of Alexa doped at AI to chat with its connected speaker

This Wednesday, in its new Washington premises, Amazon unveiled a version of its Alexa vocal assistant which becomes a real conversational “companion” to help you even more effectively and naturally.

The war of the connected house is indeed launched, and Amazon has just taken a first step as a giant. In home automation, the matter protocol, this unified language between devices from different manufacturers that will be usable with any front door (Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, etc.), makes a lot of talk about him with his promise to facilitate uses in the house.

Another battle is also emerging in parallel: which vocal assistant will become the key to your home to pilot everything? In this game, Google Assistant, Siri d’Apple and Amazon Alexa in particular try to do everything to seduce users and become the voice of connected reason, the one that will order all devices.

The future of the conversational vocal assistant

Established in connected objects since 2014, with nearly 500 million different products worldwide, tens of millions of interactions per hour, the Assistant Alexa already has a massive presence in households.

Wednesday, September 20, at its conference products and services held in its new Arlington offices, near Washington, Amazon unveiled a brand new version of Alexa, boosted at the generative. It’s a bit like Bard or Chatgpt became the brain of a vocal assistant, opening it all new horizons. Google works to integrate Bard into Google Assistant, but became the pawn by its competitor.

Because what Dave Limp, future ex-boss of Amazon Devices and Services, has presented is a new idea of ​​Alexa which will now be able to hold natural and fluid conversations, also based on the knowledge she has of you and the information you give him to contextualize his answers.

“This is Alexa’s future at generative AI,” said Tech & Co Daniel Rausch, Vice-President Amazon Alexa and Fire TV. “A new set of fundamental capacities that happens to make the conversation become more natural, more personalized and contextualized. An exchange with the truly conversational assistant.””

Alexa no longer needs to be arrested at each request. The voice assistant integrated into the enclosure or in the intelligent screen knows when you address him, because he relies on local sensors and the camera to detect your gaze. “Just pay attention to Alexa. She knows when you look at the camera for example to answer you. If you look away, it separates the context and then resumes the discussion, with a natural tone and without needing to challenge it “welcomes Daniel Rausch. “It becomes a pleasure to interact with her.””

A friend with whom to discuss

Since Chatgpt has shook the world of artificial intelligence at the end of 2022, advances in conversation took giant steps. Everyone wants their conversational agent, their omniscient and omnipotent personal assistant, capable of supporting you on a daily basis and especially to understand you

“We are at a inflection point and this does not happen every year in technology,” he admits. “When it happens, it can change everything.””

And on the side of Amazon, we hope to be the first to arrive at this turning point, already being the first to bring it to daily connected devices.

In all Amazon Echo products, even of the very first generation, Alexa will soon be miracles. The other partner devices should follow, we are told. “It’s like talking naturally to a friend,” notes Charlie French, director of the house connected to Amazon.

On stage, the demonstrations orchestrated using the new Echo Show 8 screen have let a personality of Alexa dawn on the horizon tinged with humor, in a voice with natural intonations that responds to general information, to general information, Creativity requests (write a love poem) or adapts your answers to your questions, even sometimes subjective (“Advise me a film that would have deserved to win an Oscar”). Amazon knows that the personality of Alexa has made its strength for a long time and supports this point to make it even more human.

But the most stunning was its ability to hold a jerky conversation until it leads to an action without having to recover a context. We went from a request for a sporting result from his favorite team, on the date of the next match before ending up developing a message to send to his friends to invite them to come and see him at home, with a suitable menu to his tastes … but also to a weather which announces rain, goodbye the barbecue !

The linguistic model based on vocal interactions, refined for years by Amazon thus bear fruit. Rohit Prasad, in charge of the development of AI at Amazon, specifies that the new conversational Alexa is the result of an internal work of the teams to make it as safe and secure possible, also capable of being truly factual and not not invent facts, say anything or become insulting. A way to recall some wandering of chatgpt or bingai.

After gaze and voice, body language as an element of interaction

And to support his statements, Amazon has thus shown his prowess to improve his film search engine on his Fire TV interface in order to achieve real proposed content that resembles you and corresponds to the idea that Amazon has of your tastes, depending on your previous research and viewing. Alexa will also be able, like Midjourney, design you a wallpaper according to your wishes for your Fire TV environment.

Alexa will thus have the appearance of a real personal assistant with whom to have an exchange worthy of that of Joaquin Phoenix and his AI in the film Her. But beyond the simple waouh effect released by Alexa New Look, it is also the philosophy of Amazon which takes shape: to ensure that you remain faithful to him through homemade objects, services, whatever your type of Smartphone, as long as you use the ultimate voice assistant who will be there at every moment of your daily life, for each situation.

And Amazon has promised it, the next step is already becoming clearer: that Alexa is able to understand your body language to refine its responses.

Alexa’s new version will be deployed by the end of the year in English. France will still have to wait before taking advantage of it. But we are promised quickly.

How to connect your phone to an Alexa-Enabled Device

While your Alexa-Enabled Device (Like an Echo Smart Speaker or Echo Show Smart Display) can stream music and other content from the internet, that’s not the only way to get it to play audio. For Example, You Might Want To Stream Music or Podcasts Directly from your phone.

To do that, you’ll need to connect your phone to the echo device. It’s easy to do, and ounce set up, you can easy stream audio from your phone to alexa as if it was an ordinary bluetooth speaker.

Of Race, Your Alexa Device Needs To Be Set Up Property Using the Alexa App on your phone. If you haven’t done that yet, install the alexa app for iPhone or Android and then use it to set your speaker. The App WELK YOU THROUGH EVERY STEP, Including Connecting to your Home Wi-Fi Network and Logging Into Amazon Account.

Once you’re set up, you can connect other phones to your Alexa Device for Streaming. Here’s How.

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How to connect your phone to an echo or echo show device

On the phone you want to connect, Go to Bluetooth Settings and make sure Bluetooth is turned on – USULLY, You’ll Simplely Need to make sure the Toggle is Swiped to the right.

Open The Alexa app on the phone you used to set your echo and then tap Devices At the Bottom of the Screen.

At the top of the page, tap Echo & Alexa.

Choose the Device you want to connect your phone to. You might see a few options if you have echo devices scatterred throughout the house. You can choose Any Amazon Echo Device, But be aware that some third-Party Alexa Devices may not include bluetooth, so you won’t be able to connect to them.

In the Bluetooth Connections section, tap Connect A Device.

When the Phone You Want To Connect Appears in the List of Devices, Tap It and Allow Alexa to Connect To The Phone.

Once Connected, you can stream music and other audio to the echo device as if it we have standard portable bluetooth speaker –just select the music on your phone and it should play on your echo device. And in the future, Anytime Your Phone Comes Into Range of the Speaker, It Should Connect Automatically, So You Don’t Need to Do Anything Special To Pair Or Connect.

If you Every Find that your phone has been connected to your echo device, you can say “Alexa, Connect to my phone,” and it should search for and connect to the phone automatically.

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