
Alexa+ Comes to India: Amazon’s AI Assistant Learns to Speak Indian With Hindi, Hinglish, cultural context and the ability to act on complex requests, Amazon’s new Alexa+ is less about answering questions—and more about becoming an everyday digital assistant For years, speaking to a smart speaker in India sometimes felt like talking to a very […]
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