Alexa can respond to snoring, coughing, a baby crying or a dog barking. Here's how to set up sound detection, plus why you'd even want to. Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at ...

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In the age of the AI boom, it seems that everything's getting a makeover. The ill-defined software has totally revamped perfectly good products, from workout apps to creative programs like Adobe's ...

Editor's note: A spokesperson from Amazon reached out to us. In our previous report, we mentioned, " you can tell Alexa to call Amazon Pharmacy and your request will be automatically forwarded." ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Amazon has plans to make their Alexa devices feel even more personal to users…but the feature is ...

When Amazon’s latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a feature the company spent time hyping during its fall devices event was missing. Alexa Home Theater arrived in late November, allowing owners ...

Amazon Alexa might be getting a cool new feature in the near future. The company plans on offering an update that would allow the AI voice assistant to mimic voices, which basically means that Alexa ...

If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you ...

Amazon added a few abilities to Alexa last month, introducing a variety of Super Bowl-related skills and the ability to do home automation on its own, but today the company’s telling us about some new ...

Alexa just got even more personality. Beginning Thursday, users of Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa can choose to have the device speak in the voices of Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's Alexa is one of the most popular smart home services on the market, right along with Google Home and Apple's Siri. Backed by the ...