Alexa Plus: Early Access Preview

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Alexa Plus is coming to almost every Echo — but your favorite skill might not make the cut

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Amazon 's new Alexa Plus voice assistant is scheduled to arrive in the next few weeks in an early access preview.

Powered by generative AI , Alexa Plus will be able to understand and respond to natural language, remember your likes and dislikes, respond to emotion in your voice, and talk back and forth with you in a more conversational way.

It will be free but will eventually require a $ 19.99 monthly subscription or an Amazon Prime membership.

He spoke to several developers who are doubtful about this potential transition, particularly whether they can continue monetizing their skills. Amazon has refocused its Alexa Plus experience on hooking into existing APIs and using its “agentic” capabilities to navigate websites and online services for you, which essentially cut out the middlemen. With Amazon ’s future fully focused on Alexa Plus and the original Alexa seemingly on the way out, it’s potentially a sad day for all those fabulous fart joke skills..

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