Amazon says its voice aide Alexa is ready for the office

Amazon.com Inc wants to be your new executive assistant at work. The company on Thursday said that Alexa, its increasingly popular digital aide that shoppers command by voice, is now programmed to handle a range of tedious office tasks. Businesses can buy Alexa devices that help employees dial into conference calls, manage their calendars, find open meeting rooms and - not surprisingly - order work supplies from Amazon. Amazon is looking to make money in the long term from people shopping with Alexa and using it - rather than Apple Inc's Siri or Alphabet Inc's Google Assistant - as their go-to voice technology Amazon wants Alexa to be everywhere, and it needs more voice data to feed and'train' it so that talking to the assistant feels like talking to a friend. The company is looking to make money in the long term from people shopping with Alexa and using it - rather than Apple Inc's Siri or Alphabet Inc's Google Assistant - as their go-to voice technology.