Amazon Alexa, referred to just as Alexa is a virtual assistant created by Amazon, first utilized in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers created by Amazon Lab126. It is equipped for voice interaction, music playback, making daily agendas, setting alarms, streaming web recordings, playing audio books, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real time information, for example, news.


Alexa can likewise control several smart devices utilizing itself as a home automation system. Users can expand the Alexa abilities by introducing "aptitudes" (extra usefulness created by outsider merchants, in different settings all the more usually called applications, for example, climate projects and sound highlights).

Most devices with Alexa allow users to activate the device using a wake-word (such as Alexa); other devices (such as the Amazon mobile app on iOS or Android) require the user to push a button to activate Alexa's listening mode. Currently, interaction and communication with Alexa are only available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.

In November 2017, Alexa became available in the Canadian market in English only.
As of September 2017, Amazon had more than 5,000 employees working on Alexa and related products.

It all started in November 2014, when Amazon announced Alexa alongside the Echo. Alexa was enlivened by the PC voice and conversational framework on board the Starship Enterprise in sci-fi TV arrangement and motion pictures, starting with Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The name Alexa was picked because of the way that it has a hard consonant with the X and therefore could be perceived with a higher precision. The name is likewise professed to be reminiscent of the Library of Alexandria, which is additionally utilized by Amazon Alexa Internet for the equivalent reason.
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