Amazon announced it’s working to make Alexa “more opinionated and personal.” Thanks to a new feature called “Follow up,” you can ask follow-up questions to Alexa, negating the need to use her wake word every single time you have a question or command.
Alexa now supports captions for the Echo Show and Echo Spot devices, for hearing-impaired customers.
A Routines for Kids feature lets parents create customized commands, so if you say, “Alexa, good night,” it can begin a routine — like turning off the lights and starting sleep sounds, for instance.
A new feature called Alexa Multi-Room Music lets you add a bunch of different Alexa-enabled speakers to a single group — like if you own a Harmon Kardon Allure, or a Polk Command Bar — and play music from all of them. The feature’s coming “this fall.”