Amazon is refreshing the alexa.com web site and the Alexa cellular app in order that Alexa Plus subscribers will have the ability to use the revamped, AI-powered voice assistant. We don’t have many particulars past that, however the web site and the app may very well be helpful 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 have the ability to have conversations with Alexa Plus for issues like ordering groceries, controlling sensible house gadgets, and even telling you if somebody in your home has not too long ago walked the canine by taking a look at your property digicam footage. Amazon additionally demoed how Alexa Plus might analyze and summarize paperwork, and maybe the brand new web site and app might be used to add that info.
You’ll entry Alexa Plus from the present Alexa app — there received’t be a brand new app to obtain, spokesperson Devon Corvasce confirms to The Verge. And after we first revealed this story, alexa.com simply took you to a web page to be taught extra about Alexa and to entry the Alexa cellular apps, however now it redirects to a web page about Alexa Plus.
It looks as if we’ll have to attend somewhat bit for the brand new web site and app to be obtainable extensively, 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 will even be obtainable as a part of a Prime membership.
Replace, February twenty sixth: Amazon confirmed that Alexa Plus received’t require a separate app and has modified the present web page you see if you go to alexa.com.
