Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative AI and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology.

  •  Baggins   ( @baggins@beehaw.org ) 
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    27 months ago

    I wonder if ‘basic’ Alexa will stay. At home we find it genuinely useful for setting timers and alarms etc. my wife has an obsession with the weather and is always asking for weather info for our area - she doesn’t drive and works in an office so it’s beyond me.

    We have Samsung phones so could resort to Bixby.

    The only other thing we use Alexa for is playing music although my Sonos system has it’s own voice control for that, although I suspect that may go in a couple of years when they stop supporting my kit, it’s five years old now.

    I’d rather not resort to Google.