Amazon Prepares To Launch Cheaper Music Streaming Service

Amazon launched a new music streaming service today into an already crowded field. SYDELL: To make this work, Amazon's Steve Boom says the company has been collecting data from millions of Alexa users about how they talk to it about music, and they've been programming Alexa to respond. SYDELL: Responding in a way that caters more to the way humans actually speak is a great way to open people up to the vastly expanding universe of artificial intelligence, says James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. Still, that's less than the leading standalone streaming service Spotify.