Hospitals including Boston Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist would soon use the tech, it said. Patients can use Alexa to talk to health staff and control devices in their room, Amazon said.

Even though your omnipresent Alexa is always listening, you might not feel like your virtual assistant knows you on a deeply personal level. Alexa’s creator and chief scientist Rohit Prasad wants to ...

NEW YORK—Alexa is (finally) getting smarter. Amazon announced the revamped Alexa+ voice assistant, with “more personalized ...

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Alexa, a voice-based AI “digital assistant” that lives inside the retailer’s line of Echo home speakers, was launched in 2014 after Amazon bought a Polish speech synthesizer outfit called Ivona. Back ...