Alexa Announcements Feature Expanded to All Alexa 3zj3x Powered Devices

Announcements were earlier available only on Amazon’s Echo devices. p4k15

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 27 May 2019 11:14 IST

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Expanding its voice-enabled capabilities, Amazon is rolling out the Announcements feature across all of Alexa-compatible devices. Launched in 2018, the feature lets s send a short voice message to Alexa-enabled devices that are part of the same network with a single voice command.

Alexa built-in products to implement and new ones that the provided self-tests and certification", The Verge reported on Saturday.

s can send out their announcements by saying "Alexa announce that/tell everyone/broadcast" that would be announced via any Alexa-compatible device including Amazon Fire TV Cube, Sonos speakers, Facebook's Portal, and others.

The feature initially rolled out to the Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and Echo Spot devices.

Google had introduced the same functionality as part of Google Home line of smart speakers that allows s to broadcast one message to all Assistant-enabled devices.

Earlier this month, Amazon's voice assistant Alexa suffered almost an hour-long outage in the US for reasons that remain undisclosed.

Instead of serving up the usual music, news or weather information on request, the voice assistant and smart home gadget appeared stumped for s in several US cities, including New York, Boston and San Francisco on Wednesday, CNET reported.

Throughout the outage period, when s asked Alexa for assistance, it replied: "Sorry. I'm having trouble. Please try in a little while".

The outage was soon resolved but the details about what went wrong remain undisclosed.

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