Amazon adding Alexa to Fire TV, Fire TV StickFebruary 4, 2016 - 14:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Amazon brought Alexa to the TV with its second-generation Fire TV set-top box, and now, a few months later, the company is also doing the same for owners of its original box, the Verge reports. Starting Wednesday, February 3, and continuing "over the next few weeks," Fire TV and Fire TV Stick customers will be receiving a software update that adds Amazon's personal assistant to the older hardware. Both devices already include voice search for finding movies and TV shows to watch, but Alexa adds a bit more functionality to the mix. Alexa can't quite do everything that's possible with the Amazon Echo speaker, but you can still ask for useful things like the weather, traffic updates, and sports scores. Alexa on Fire TV can also find local restaurants, control certain home automation products, and reorder previous purchases you've made with Amazon. The imminent software update also gives original Fire TV Stick owners the option of using Bluetooth headphones for private listening. And finally, Amazon says it's made improvements to the add-up subscriptions service that lets customers sign up for Showtime or Starz right from the set-top box — and without cable. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |