If you are lucky enough to own one of Amazon's fabulous and extremely popular Echo, Echo Dot or the Tap hardware, then you're about to benefit from even more added functionality thanks to a new and improved Amazon Alexa experience. Starting today, Amazon has upgraded its Alexa virtual assistant with some new abilities that will allow users to utilize the new found travel expertise of the assistant to be more efficient in the booking of all things related to travel. Alexa's new functionality, which waterfalls down to a variety of Amazon hardware including the Fire TV, is all thanks to an integration partnership with travel search engine KAYAK.
Finally. You can get Amazon Alexa voice assistant on your iPhone thanks to Lexi iPhone app that is available to download right now on the App Store.
Amazon has officially unveiled two additional consumer tech devices that not only offer excellent functionality to the technology loving crowd, but instantly grow the Alexa-enabled product count as well. The online retailing behemoth has taken the opportunity to announce the Amazon Tap and Amazon Echo Dot, two new Alexa-powered devices that should have a huge appeal to the home automation crowd. The two devices should also appeal to the technologically au fait who love controlling gadgets through audible commands, in this particular case, via Alexa.
Here's a video showing 50 voice commands that you can ask Amazon Echo's Alexa. Alexa, for those that may not know, is essentially the Echo's Siri, and allows the hardware to act on audible user commands.
The Amazon Echo has received a new feature that allows Alexa to read Kindle books the same way it handles things such as Wikipedia entries and news articles.
Support for and from third parties can go a long way, which is why the news that Amazon Echo users can now trigger IFTTT recipes using custom phrases is a big deal.
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