Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesiser named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. It is integrated into Amazon Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers as well as Echo Show and Echo Spot devices. Alexa's technology allows users to access a wide variety of functionality and information, such as playing music, setting alarms, triggering reminders, streaming podcasts, making to-do lists, playing audiobooks, and updating traffic, weather, sports, and other real-time information, such as local news. Alexa can perform these functions out-of-the-box, usually triggered by a "wake-word" to alert an Alexa-enabled device of a vocal command. Alexa listens for the command and performs the appropriate function, or task, to answer a question or command.

Alexa is an AI from Amazon that is voice activated and can respond in natural language. It can perform information retrieval tasks, shopping notifications, and integrate to become a smart home device. Part of Alexa is access to Amazon Skills. Amazon Skills has access to many podcasts and apps for educational goals.

In the past couple of years, the error rate for understanding spoken English using the most cutting edge AI voice programs has dropped to under 3%. If you are an American born English speaker, your error rate at understanding spoken English is about 4%. Which means cutting edge AI software is now better than Americans at understanding spoken English. AI Voice Technology is intersecting healthcare in many ways -- and this is still the early days of AI voice technology. The leading giant in the world of home-based smart speakers, Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant.

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Eisai Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd., today announced the launch of Ella the Jellyfish, the first Amazon Alexa skill designed for those affected by Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS). Available free of charge, the Alexa skill was created with input from children living with LGS, a rare and severe form of childhood-onset epilepsy, their families and caregivers. When a child has a debilitating disease, everyday life for them, their families and caregivers can be challenging. LGS can be characterized by frequent and unpredictable seizures, limited speech and mobility, cognitive impairment, and developmental delays. Approximately 70 percent of patients with LGS will show cognitive impairment at diagnosis and more than 50 percent suffer behavioral issues including hyperactivity, sleep disturbances, aggression, and autistic symptoms.

In 2018 smart speaker ownership has doubled in the UK. The most popular voice assistant is Amazon Alexa which is part of the Alexa Echo device, followed by Google Assistant which powers Google Home and Google Home Mini, Apple's Home Pod and Sonos One. At the moment people mainly use voice assistants to play music, answer questions, set alarm and reminders. Is there an opportunity there for marketers? Alexa provides a set of built-in capabilities, called skills.

Being able to talk to your inbox via Alexa to access your most important messages may mean you won't be as tied to your smartphone all the time. You use it to talk to everyone else, so why not talk to your inbox itself? Notion got its start as a free app for Android and iOS that syncs with your inbox, then applies some fancy machine learning and artificial intelligence to make it easier to parse through all your content. Now, it's made it easier still to interact with your inbox -- with your voice by way of Alexa. The custom Alexa skill (which means you'll need to start each command with "ask Notion") lets you check for new mail, delete old messages, or even sum up the most important messages you've yet to get to following that well-deserved vacation when you let your inbox go unchecked.

Amid a flurry of major news for Amazon's Alexa, the company today shared plans to beef up the Alexa Skills Kit with a library of hundreds of built-in commands within the next few weeks. "Intents" are used to understand the most basic commands from users. Earlier this year, Alexa only had 15 intents and slot types -- for commands like "Stop," "Cancel," or city names. Amazon offered few details about the kinds of intents and slot types coming, though Prasad told Backchannel today that people should expect book, video, and local business slot types. The news was announced by Amazon Echo evangelist David Isbitski in a blog post today and addressed by Alexa vice president Rohit Prasad in an Alexa State of the Union address delivered at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.