"The company has revamped its legacy Alexa product to handle more complex interactions-offering examples of how users can engage in "deep conversations" with Alexa+ that may be ongoing over the course of potentially several days, as the technology can remember context, Daniel Rausch, Amazon's vice president of Alexa and Echo, said in the statement. Homeowners are also pairing Alexa+ with their Ring cameras to identify unusual patterns around their homes, he said."
"Homeowners are also pairing Alexa+ with their Ring cameras to identify unusual patterns around their homes, he said. People are engaging in two to three times more conversations with Alexa+ than they were previously, Rausch told CNBC. "Every week in a customer's journey, engagement goes up, and that is really the sign of a hit product, basically.""
"One Redditor posted " Alexa+ is a mess" on an Alexa subreddit four months ago, lamenting several of the technology's shortcomings, including that it "feels like a huge downgrade from 'regular' Alexa." The post garnered more than 240 responses, with other Redditors sharing similar frustrations. Other Redditors share near-daily complaints about lag times or the quality of responses on that subreddit."
Alexa+ is available free to all Prime members, following an early-access preview that attracted tens of millions of requests. The revamped Alexa supports more complex, context-aware interactions and can enable "deep conversations" that persist across days. Alexa+ can pair with Ring cameras to surface unusual activity patterns around homes. User engagement with Alexa+ has increased two to three times compared with the previous Alexa. User reaction is mixed: some Reddit users call Alexa+ a mess and report lag or poorer response quality, while U.S. searches for how to cancel Prime have surged 110 percent.
Read at Fast Company
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]