Amazon Alexa

Also known as Amazon Alexa App, Alexa Amazon, Echo Frames, Echo Buds, Alexa Bot

virtual assistant service

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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

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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
social media followers: 152000
Commons category: Amazon Alexa
software version identifier: 2.2.548660.0
publication date: 2014-00-00

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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.