Amazon is adding full voice commands to its Alexa app for Android. Previously, the app only linked hardware like the Echo and allowed users to manage Alexa skills. The company's Alexa platform--along ...

If you have an Amazon Tap, Dash Wand or the Amazon Fire TV voice remote, you'll need to press a button to wake Alexa. Amazon ...

Some five months after Android users gained the ability to control Amazon's Alexa voice assistant through a dedicated app, the e-commerce giant is bringing identical functionality to iOS, turning an ...

When it works, controlling your TV with Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant can feel like magic. Using voice commands avoids thumbing through menus and can get to what you want to watch much faster. But ...

Sarah Lord covers TVs and home entertainment. Prior to joining CNET, Sarah served as the tech and electronic reviews fellow at Insider, where she wrote about everything from smart watches and ...

You can now use Alexa voice controls to play tunes in the app completely hands free, just like you would on an Echo smart speaker. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an ...

Logitech on Tuesday announced the Harmony Express, a new universal remote that features the Alexa voice assistant. Amazon’s increasingly ubiquitous helper comes built into the device and is accessible ...

Logitech's popular Harmony universal remotes have long been the go-to solution for tech-savvy nerds who want to replace the bounty of ugly rectangles littering their coffee tables with a single, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Netflix's support for Amazon Alexa just got a whole lot more powerful, with an update to the streaming app that more tightly integrates voice ...

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The goal of this particular move seems to be all about ensuring Amazon stays ahead of voice competition by controlling key functions through mobile phones. Amazon and Google are vying for dominance in ...