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 ...

Amazon Alexa uses computing technology to listen to your commands and respond accordingly. But, soon enough, Amazon’s assistant will actually sound like a human. In a blog post on Tuesday, Amazon said ...

Alexa may start sounding a bit less robotic. In a bid to make Alexa interactions sound more natural, Amazon has given it the ability to respond with either an excited or a disappointed tone-- for ...

Wish Alexa could tell you when your kids have left the kitchen faucet running, or when your latest load of laundry is ready for the dryer? Now she can, thanks to a pair of new routine triggers. Amazon ...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is increasingly family-friendly and helpful, largely to the credit of Adva Levin. Levin, a content producer and designer, is the founder Pretzel Labs, an Israel-based ...

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." ...

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 ...

Amazon announced a bunch of new stuff at a big event in Seattle today. Chief among them are a volley of new features and improved functionalities for Alexa. Some of them are pretty neat. One of them ...

Alexa, are you an Eagles fan? Amazon's voice-powered assistant is picking the Eagles to win the Super Bowl! If you ask your Amazon Echo or Dot "Alexa, who will win the Super Bowl?" she replies: "I am ...

First Alert’s Onelink Safe & Sound smoke alarm was originally unveiled earlier this year, integrating both HomeKit support as well as Alexa. Today, First Alert is rolling out an update to the device ...

Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa have been baked into a lot of questionable gadgets that don’t really need to be controlled through voice commands. But one device where hands-free operation makes ...