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Amazon introduced Alexa Plus, which is its new voice assistant that's backed by AI
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Do you know how to manage my kid's schedules? I noticed a birthday party conflicts with picking up grandma at the airport
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Want me to book her a ride? Not only can you do a lot more things with it, but you can also use a more conversational
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tone to find exactly what you're looking for. We've told this Alexa that we have a dog
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His name is Buddy. He's a Bernie Doodle. And so just asking Alexa, hey, show me some videos
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The cameras have captured a buddy. it comes up with search term of person walking a dog pull those up very quickly very easy to watch
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them alexa uh there was a video the cameras caught back earlier in the month of the kids
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shoveling snow let me see sure i'd be happy to look for that video of the kids shoveling snow
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from early this month let me search through the recordings for you i've got a bunch of videos
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so just super easy to find anything your ring cameras may have captured and it all comes right
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up on the Echo Show. You can just use your voice and it'll sort of do anything for you. So you can
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have a whole conversation with it Say like I need to add all these things to my grocery list No wait I didn want that I want this one instead And it automatically add those things to your list Alexa I need some things from Amazon Fresh Sure Let me know what you need Get me a big bag of basmati rice
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I want onions, orange juice, aluminum foil, chicken thighs, cinnamon sticks, milk
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Actually make that 2% milk. Change that orange juice to organic orange juice
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And get rid of the aluminum foil I've already got some So we should see that change
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That should go So the way this works is exactly the same as on any grocery app
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You tap on the search bar and you search for something It's going to give you the things you buy frequently first
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Then the popular items Then it's going to give you items on sale Or whatever the ordering is
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The same thing happens here But if there's something else that you want For example, I don't want this rice
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I can just tap on the item I can see alternatives and I can swap in one tap
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We've found in our testing that when this is connected to your actual grocery account
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that most of the time it's getting you the right stuff first time because of this history
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I really excited to try Alexa Plus to create new smart home routines One of the biggest things is I have so many lights and locks and switches around my house that it a little bit confusing to try and manage them all together
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So hopefully Alexa Plus will let me create routines and control all those devices much more easily
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Alexa, turn off the light over in the sitting area. But again, this is called sofa light
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And so in the current version of Alexa, you'd probably get a response like, I don't know a device called sitting area light
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But the new model is able to reason that, gosh, sitting area, probably referring to the light by the sofa. So I'm going to control that one
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and do it automatically super easily. You can also do other great things like create routines
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I want to wake up at this time of the morning. What is it something you would recommend? And it'll
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suggest not only what you can do with your smart lights and devices, but also what music to play
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and how to set reminders for people and things like that. Hey, Alexa, I want to create a new
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workout routine to help me make sure I really get to my workout every morning
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I've created a new morning workout routine for you. Here's what it does. Every weekday at 6 a.m.
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I announce time for your morning workout Let get moving on all your devices Then I play an upbeat workout playlist on your Echo Show 21 for an hour That great but I may not always be ready at six I be doing the workouts in the living room
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And so when you see me down there between six and seven, can you kick it off? I've updated your morning workout routine. Now it'll kick off when I detect you in the living
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room between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on weekdays. The actions remain the same. I'll announce it's
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workout time. Play an upbeat playlist and start a 30-minute timer. Ready to get fit
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Alexa Plus is going to be rolling out in the coming months. First, two Echo Show devices
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That means the Echo Show 5, 8, 15, and 21. That's only Alexa devices with screens on them
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Now, Amazon is looking to expand it to all Alexa devices. At least ones made after 2017 is what
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I've been told, but that'll come further down the road. Alexa Plus is going to cost $19.99 a month
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which is pretty expensive. However, if you have an Amazon Prime account, it will be included for
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free. So I'm really excited to try out Alexa Plus and see all that it can do. For more coverage of
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