Alexa can respond to snoring, coughing, a baby crying or a dog barking. Here's how to set up sound detection, plus why you'd even want to. Dale Smith is a former Associate Writer on the How-To team at ...

Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant that makes every Echo speaker and display a handy smart home appliance. On occasion, though, Alexa doesn't work the way it should, ignoring voice commands or not ...

Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away. Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future ...

Namely, you can now use person detection to fire off a set of commands as part of an Alexa routine. Think about lights that turn on and off depending on whether anyone is in the room. An air ...

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa is typically associated with smart devices, from Amazon’s own Echo smart speaker line to compatible TVs, air conditioners, and more. But we don’t always mention that ...

If you’re a T-Mobile subscriber, good news: Your Alexa-powered Amazon Echo speaker just became a phone. Amazon just announced that T-Mobile is the latest U.S. carrier to support Alexa’s carrier ...

Alexa earbuds, Alexa glasses, an Alexa ring: Amazon announced them all at its annual hardware showcase on Wednesday. What these devices have in common, aside from a naming convention—Echo Buds, Echo ...