{"id":267018,"date":"2025-09-30T17:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:12:13","slug":"alexa-plus-is-available-out-of-the-box-on-new-echo-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267018\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Plus is available out of the box on new Echo devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon\u2019s AI-powered Alexa is on its way to more homes soon. The upgraded assistant will be available straight out of the box with new hardware announced today<\/a>. New Echo devices will come with Alexa Plus straight out of the box; it\u2019ll also be available to those who buy one of the new FireTV. Alexa Plus is still an early access program and only available in the US, but including it on the new hardware marks an important step forward for Amazon\u2019s overdue assistant overhaul.<\/p>\n

The upgraded Alexa experience includes some \u201cagentic\u201d features, and if you connect your Uber, OpenTable, or Ticketmaster account, it can do things like book dinner reservations or hail a ride. You can ask it to remember bits of information so you can ask about them later, and use voice to create smart home routines. But its best feature might be that you don\u2019t have to \u201cspeak Alexa\u201d<\/a> to it, as our senior smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy put it. Alexa Plus understands and responds with natural language, so you don\u2019t need to remember the exact phrasing for a command to get it to do your bidding.<\/p>\n

If you still don\u2019t have access to Alexa Plus in its early access program, picking up a new Echo or FireTV might be the surest way to get in. They\u2019re all available for pre-order today; some models will start shipping in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s AI-powered Alexa is on its way to more homes soon. The upgraded assistant will be available straight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2431,43539,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-267018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-amazon-alexa","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294368444156409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}