Alexa, the Amazon Services Trojan Horse?
Is the Amazon Echo and Alexa a trojan horse to allow Amazon to sell more products? Nope, but it might be to sell more services.
Amazon Alexa’s Paul Cutsinger tells us what’s new
At Alexa Live 2020, Amazon dropped 31 new features on us, the most features dropped at one time ever. Alexa’s Head of Developer Strategy, Paul Cutsinger, joins us to break them down.
Amazon’s Alexa strategy latest: trying to conquer a long-standing weakness
With the latest developments in Alexa functionality announced at Alexa Live 2020, Amazon has shown a glimpse into its advancing Alexa strategy, and how it’s trying to make up for a long-standing weakness. Here’s the what, why and how.
Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent
In a study by Uswitch, it was found that Irish, Welsh and Scottish accents are the hardest for voice assistants like Alexa to understand. Here’s why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent.
Give your smart speaker a break, it’s working pretty hard
The microphone technology in your smart speaker, it’s pretty impressive. When you talk, sound leaves your mouth, but it doesn’t travel in a straight line. It travels like a shotgun and it just blasts in all different directions and then bounces around the room and you get reflections. It’s called reverb, and those reflections are […]
New Alexa features for developers from Alexa Live 2020
Now we have a couple weeks that have passed since Alexa Live: those few hours where Amazon just blew our minds and announced 31 new features. There are new features for designers, for businesses and, of course, for devs as well. Now let’s look at a few features that I find most important and most […]
Top 7 new Alexa updates for marketers
Amazon recently announced 31 new features for Amazon Alexa. Here are the top seven for marketers.
Alexa is part of the family now with Rozzi Meredith
We’re joined by Rozzi Meredith, Head of Innovation Strategy at Voxly Digital, to discuss their new report: ‘Part of the family, now: investigating voice usage amongst UK families’.
Two strategies to get your Alexa skill discovered
Alexa skill discoverability is a challenge that’s existed since the birth of the Echo as a skill developer or brand, how do you get people to use your Alexa skill? In this video, we dive into two strategies that, when used together, will help you find users.
Alexa for retailers and the voice shopping landscape with Shilp Agarwal
Retailers with Alexa skills can see a 12-15% increase in cart size, improve customer experience and gather vital competitive data as voice shopping explodes. Shilp Agarwal, CEO of Blutag, joins us to share more about the voice shopping landscape.