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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[-] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's projects that fully replace the Google Home Mini mobo. No reason you couldn't do that with Alexa

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah that's kind of the direction I was thinking. I really want to have access to the screen and the touch controls on the shows though. It'll all come in time.

There's another really wicked side project I saw running on pis. You put a Bluetooth enabled device in every room and it tracks where your items are. So you could ask where your keys aren't to triangulate which room in your house they were in.

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