Alexa Amazon-Amazon Wants Alexa And Echos To Recognize Your Voice

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Alexa Amazon; Amazon wants Alexa to completely recognise your voice

In October, Google announced a new feature on the Google Home platform: The ability to recognize individual users’ voices, meaning that when you ask Google to play music on Spotify, you no longer have to endure your partner’s Britney Spears playlist — even for a second — before you direct the device to switch to your own playlist. Not to be outdone, Amazon Alexa introduced the same feature around the same time period. Now, when customers in the U.S. address Alexa, the smart assistant will recognize their voices automatically.

If you say, “Alexa, play music,” she now select tracks and playlists personalized for Amazon Music customers without requiring any extra setup or enrollment. This new feature can be managed within the Alexa App under the Settings tab.

After you create a voice profile, Alexa will call you by name and give you personalized answers. So when you ask Alexa to add laundry detergent to your shopping list, she will automatically add the item rather than having to clarify which shopping list you want it added to. And soon, you may be able to tailor some of the more than 15,000 Alexa skills to individual users with the developer capabilities. Full Story

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Amazon Echo and other Alexa devices previously supported multiple accounts, but required users to say “Alexa, switch accounts” to move between them.

When recognizing a registered user’s voice, Alexa can deliver personalized results for messages, Alexa-to-Alexa calling, music playback, shopping, and news briefings.

Now, for users on a Music Unlimited Family Plan, each person with a voice profile can just say “play music” and Alexa will select songs based on the speaker’s preferences. It will also personalize results for the command “play a station”.

When shopping, users who’ve set up a voice confirmation code will no longer to say the code during the purchase, as Alexa has already recognized the user’s voice and linked it to their account.

As CNET notes, Alexa will only ask for the code if it’s sure it isn’t you in order to prevent kids from going on a buying spree. Full Story