Amazon is refreshing the alexa.com web site and the Alexa cell app in order that Alexa Plus subscribers will be capable to use the revamped, AI-powered voice assistant. We don’t have many particulars past that, however the web site and the app might be useful new methods to work together with the revamped Alexa, which was introduced at an occasion this morning.
On the occasion, Amazon confirmed the way you’ll be capable to have conversations with Alexa Plus for issues like ordering groceries, controlling good residence gadgets, and even telling you if somebody in your home has not too long ago walked the canine by your own home digital camera footage. Amazon additionally demoed how Alexa Plus may analyze and summarize paperwork, and maybe the brand new web site and app might be used to add that data.
You’ll entry Alexa Plus from the present Alexa app — there gained’t be a brand new app to obtain, spokesperson Devon Corvasce confirms to The Verge. And after we first printed this story, alexa.com simply took you to a web page to study extra about Alexa and to entry the Alexa cell apps, however now it redirects to a web page about Alexa Plus.
It looks like we’ll have to attend a bit bit for the brand new web site and app to be out there broadly, although. Amazon says that Alexa Plus will initially roll out within the US “within the subsequent few weeks,” after which “subsequently in waves within the coming months.” Alexa Plus will price $19.99 monthly or may even be out there as a part of a Prime membership.
Replace, February twenty sixth: Amazon confirmed that Alexa Plus gained’t require a separate app and has modified the present web page you see once you go to alexa.com.
