You'll be able to train Alexa to hear sounds specific to your home on Echo and Echo Show in 2022. Sean knows far too much about Marvel, DC and Star Wars, and poured this knowledge into recaps and ...

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Amazon is preparing to roll out a trio of new features that will allow consumers to further personalize their Alexa experience by helping train the Alexa AI using simple tools. In a few months’ time, ...

Recently, Amazon introduced a feature that allowed Alexa to hear certain types of sounds, called Custom Sound Detection. Now, it's adding two new specific Alexa sound detectors for "water running" and ...