Amazon Alexa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Amazon Alexa App, Alexa Amazon, Echo Frames, Echo Buds, Alexa Bot
virtual assistant service
Key facts
- Operating system
- Windows 10 or later, Fire OS 5.0 or later, iOS 16.0 or later , Android 10 or later
- Platform
- Fire OS, iOS, Android, Linux , Windows , Wear OS
- Available in
- English , French , German , Japanese , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Hindi , Arabic
- Type
- Intelligent personal assistant , cloud-based voice service
- Website
- www .alexa .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- product
- Has part
- client
- Developer
- Amazon
- Official website
- alexa.amazon.com
- Image
- Amazon Echo Dot (virtual digital assistant) with normal coffee mug as size comparison.jpg
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- inception
- 2014-00-00
- operating system
- Fire OS
- social media followers
- 152000
- Commons category
- Amazon Alexa
- used by
- consumer
- supports programming language
- AWS Lambda
- distributed by
- App Store
- different from
- Alexa Internet
- topic's main category
- Category:Amazon Alexa
- software version identifier
- 2.2.548660.0
- publication date
- 2014-00-00
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Amazon Alexa, or simply Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology marketed by Amazon and implemented in software applications for smart phones, tablets, wireless smart speakers, and other electronic appliances and at Alexa.com.
Alexa was largely developed from the British computer scientist William Tunstall-Pedoe's Evi system and a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, acquired by Amazon in 2012 and 2013. From 2023 to 2025, Amazon shifted to an in-house large language model named Nova to be used in a new generation of Alexa, called Alexa+, that occasionally used Anthropic's Claude model.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amazon Alexa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.